Sending a new email message to meeting attendees

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BPippenger

I currently in the process of making the switch from a PC to a MAC and
am trying to become familiar with Entourage. One feature I used over
and over again in Outlook is the ability to open a meeting on my
calendar, click Action in the menu bar, and send a new email message
to the meeting attendees. In Entourage, it seems I have to start from
scratch and add every participant each time i create a new email
message. Is anyone aware of how to complete this in Entourage. I
appreciate the help!
 
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William Smith

I currently in the process of making the switch from a PC to a MAC and
am trying to become familiar with Entourage. One feature I used over
and over again in Outlook is the ability to open a meeting on my
calendar, click Action in the menu bar, and send a new email message
to the meeting attendees. In Entourage, it seems I have to start from
scratch and add every participant each time i create a new email
message. Is anyone aware of how to complete this in Entourage. I
appreciate the help!
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That's not a feature of Entourage but it can be scripted.

Open the Script Editor application found in /Applications/AppleScript
and paste the following script into it (lines 5 and 10 wrap):

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
set recipientList to every recipient of front window
set theSubject to subject of front window
if recipientList is not {} then
set newMessage to make new outgoing message with properties
{subject:theSubject}
open newMessage
repeat with aRecipient in recipientList
set emailAddress to address of aRecipient
make new recipient of window 1 with properties {recipient
type:to recipient, address:emailAddress}
end repeat
end if
end tell

Save the script in "~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Entourage Script
Menu Items" where " ~ " is your home folder. Name the script "New
Message to Attendees.scpt" and save it as File Format: script.

To run the script select it from the script menu in Entourage while any
message window with recipients in the To field is open.

Hope this helps! bill
 
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