Edit Message - 2008 seems unable to edit Subject line

I ALWAYS edited the subject of my client e-mails to better reflect the subject matter and accompanying notes.<br>
I am LOST without the ability to do this. The "edit" shortcut "button" is gone and I am unable to change the subject. PLEASE HELP!<br>
Will there be an MS update which enables this usage? I may just go back to 2004 otherwise. Thanks!

Diane
Mon Jan 28 18:23:58 CST 2008

On 1/28/08 12:19 PM, in article ee8b12e.-1@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw,
"GabeFSU@officeformac.com" <GabeFSU@officeformac.com> wrote:

> I ALWAYS edited the subject of my client e-mails to better reflect the subject
> matter and accompanying notes.
> I am LOST without the ability to do this. The "edit" shortcut "button" is gone
> and I am unable to change the subject. PLEASE HELP!
> Will there be an MS update which enables this usage? I may just go back to
> 2004 otherwise. Thanks!

See this workaround and explanation of why it's missing:

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/2008.html#bug2>

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Diane, Microsoft Mac MVP (MVPs are not Microsoft Employees)
Entourage Help Page <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>

Serenity101
Tue Jan 29 14:51:12 CST 2008

On Jan 28, 4:23 pm, Diane Ross <di...@invalid.entourage.mvps.org>
wrote:
> On 1/28/08 12:19 PM, in article ee8b12e...@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw,
>
> "Gabe...@officeformac.com" <Gabe...@officeformac.com> wrote:
> > I ALWAYS edited thesubjectof my client e-mails to better reflect thesubject
> > matter and accompanying notes.
> > I am LOST without the ability to do this. The "edit" shortcut "button" is gone
> > and I am unable to change thesubject. PLEASE HELP!
> > Will there be an MS update which enables this usage? I may just go back to
> > 2004 otherwise. Thanks!
>
> See this workaround and explanation of why it's missing:
>
> <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/2008.html#bug2>
>
> --
> Diane, Microsoft Mac MVP (MVPs are not Microsoft Employees)
> Entourage Help Page <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
> Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>

That page didn't help me at all, unfortunately. I placed
edit_subject.scpt in the proper folder, but when I open Entourage, the
command is nowhere to be found. I tried renaming edit_subject.scpt to
edit_subject.scpt \mE (adding a space, backslash, modifier and
capital shortcut letter to the end of the filename) -- and Command-E
within Entourage does nothing.

How do I get this script to work?

Thanks,
K.

Diane
Tue Jan 29 21:01:31 CST 2008

On 1/29/08 12:51 PM, in article
ff24ae41-bc61-4320-9c88-d553e4798741@d70g2000hsb.googlegroups.com,
"Serenity101@gmail.com" <Serenity101@gmail.com> wrote:

> That page didn't help me at all, unfortunately. I placed
> edit_subject.scpt in the proper folder, but when I open Entourage, the
> command is nowhere to be found. I tried renaming edit_subject.scpt to
> edit_subject.scpt \mE (adding a space, backslash, modifier and
> capital shortcut letter to the end of the filename) -- and Command-E
> within Entourage does nothing.

Try copy/paste this into the Script Editor.

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"

set objMessage to item 1 of (get current messages)


set dlgReply to display dialog "Subject:" default answer (get subject of
objMessage) with icon 1
if text returned of dlgReply is not "" then
set subject of objMessage to text returned of dlgReply
end if

end tell

I'm uploading a new copy of the script.

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/downloads/scripts/edit_subject.zip>

--
Diane, Microsoft Mac MVP (MVPs are not Microsoft Employees)
Entourage Help Page <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>

Serenity101
Thu Jan 31 03:06:43 CST 2008


Thanks so much, Diane. The \mE extension now works, and I can edit my
Subjects within Entourage using Cmd-E.

BTW, in keeping with other existing script filenames in that folder, I
did Not put a space after the filename (before the backslash), and
that works fine. Not sure if the instructions on Microsoft's how-to
page on scripts are incorrect.

Is this inability to edit the subject line (the old way) going to be
fixed in a future release, or will we always have to use this script?

thanks,
K.

Diane
Thu Jan 31 15:22:23 CST 2008

On 1/31/08 1:06 AM, in article
6843e616-64f8-4f87-9046-30ba74f8c32c@y5g2000hsf.googlegroups.com,
"Serenity101@gmail.com" <Serenity101@gmail.com> wrote:

> BTW, in keeping with other existing script filenames in that folder, I
> did Not put a space after the filename (before the backslash), and
> that works fine. Not sure if the instructions on Microsoft's how-to
> page on scripts are incorrect.

Could you provide the URL. Want to make sure it's not my page with wrong
directions. Here is my page.

To add a shortcut to a script:

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/script/add_shortcuts.html>
>
> Is this inability to edit the subject line (the old way) going to be
> fixed in a future release, or will we always have to use this script?

I haven't heard so can't comment. I would guess that it would be added, but
when probably depends on time. Right now they have bug fixes that cause
problems that have a higher priority.

--
Diane, Microsoft Mac MVP (MVPs are not Microsoft Employees)
Entourage Help Page <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>