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    - Entourage 2008 - My Day I can't seem to get the Entourage 'My Day' feature to display any events which have been entered into my Calendar as an 'All-day event', i.e. tick in the All-day event box. Anyone any idea what's wrong? Tag: Entourage 2008 Wish List Tag: 89189
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    - Entourage 2008 keeps crashing I have just installed Office:mac 2008 and Leopard and the update to 10.5.2 I am finding that Entourage keeps quitting and then when I relaunch the program it shows in the top left tool bar but the program remains hidden from view. The only way to rectify the problem and get Entourage to launch is to restart the mac. Most annoying after the 3rd time today. Anybody any clues please? Tag: Entourage 2008 Wish List Tag: 89188
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    - Printing email messages Hi all I'm new to Mac and Entourage, another recent convert from the PC. Sorry if this is an obvious question, but I've tried everything with no success. When I print email messages the header lines (Subject, Date From etc.) appear in very large type and take up loads of room. Also there's no indication that the message contained one or more attachments. (You can tell I am used to using Outlook) Can I adjust the font size of the header info, and can I specify that attachments should be listed, when present? Its Entourage 2004 and Leopard if that makes a difference Ta BeeP Tag: Entourage 2008 Wish List Tag: 89187
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    - Possible to view tasks in the entourage-calendar? I would like to see al my tasks in the calendar sheets instead of seeing them in the seperate task sheet. is this possible? the big plus is seeing the time needed for finalzing a task directly in the calendar (highlighted in color) and would enable me to decide better when I have time for meetings. Tag: Entourage 2008 Wish List Tag: 89178
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    - Can you revert to 2004 by exporting and importing? Like some others here, I have been very frustrated by the difficulties of syncing Entourage 2008 with a Palm device. In addition I have been experiencing instability with Office 2008 that I never had with 2004, with multiple hangs when I attempt to execute formatting or font changes in Word. I don't have time to work through these issues, so I have decided to return to Office 2004, which always worked well for me, and which allowed easy synchronization with my Palm device. I understand that the main obstacle in the way of reverting from 2008 to the 2004 version is that 2008 has introduced a new database format and, while it includes a conversion program to convert from the 2004 format into the 2008 format, the process cannot be run in reverse. I would like to know if one could achieve the same result (backward conversion of the database) by first exporting the 2008 data into a neutral format and then reinstalling 2004 and finally importing the previously exported data back into 2004. Would that strategy work? Lancelot Fletcher Tag: Entourage 2008 Wish List Tag: 89174
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    - Entourage text Incoming text on my Mac in incoming documents frequently becomes 'gobbledygoop' and I have to restart. Some incoming documents never correct themselves. If I open the same documents and messages on my PC, there is never a problem. i have looked in the settings and preferences but but can't find a correcting method. Any ideas ?? Denis Gibney Tag: Entourage 2008 Wish List Tag: 89170
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    - Error Message Using Office 2008 for the Mac. When in Entourage under the Tools > Toolbox > Reference Tools: When attempting to get a foreign language translation, I get an error message that reads: "Office can not connect to the internet. Make sure that your computer is connected to the internet, and press RETURN to try again." Since I am able to receive and send all kinds of e-mails including HTML, I must assume that my computer IS connected to the internet. Any ideas? Tag: Entourage 2008 Wish List Tag: 89138
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    - no vodafone mail with Entourage 2008 Hi, Entourage 2008 under leopard 10.5.2 (German version) won't connect with my (German) Vodafone pop3-mailserver (unknown error -50). Mail account preferences were converted automatically from Entourage 2004. I created a new account manually as well, error -50 upon connection with that new account and with the converted account. The smtp-server is working, no trouble at all. As it is my main email account, I had to downgrade to Entourage 2004 which works very well. What is wrong? Help is appreciated. Lueppo Tag: Entourage 2008 Wish List Tag: 89137
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    - Palm Sync in Office 2008 Anyone know when Palm sync will be available in Office 2008? Will the 2004 conduits work with 2008? Tag: Entourage 2008 Wish List Tag: 89136
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    - email background edit Is there a way to change the format/appearance of the email background permanently? I have found ways to change new emails individually. Any help is appreciated. bill Tag: Entourage 2008 Wish List Tag: 89135
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    - address book I'd like to use only one address book. "Address Book" which came with the iMac seems user friendly but I can't seem to make Entourage access it. Can it be done? Also, what would the best approach be to support mail merge function in Word. I'm coming from a PC environment where I used an Access database and Word to do mail merges. Tag: Entourage 2008 Wish List Tag: 89134
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    - creating a letter template I am trying to create a letter template with a subject line and body. The Help menu says to go to the file menu and select the message you want to make your template. I don't know what that means. I have an letter open that I want to convert to a template: do I save the letter as a draft or save it someplace? It doesn't seem to work. Tag: Entourage 2008 Wish List Tag: 89133
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    - Remove Internet Headers When Printing I currently use Office 2008 for the Mac and when I print, the internet headers of Subject/Date/From/To/etc. Are printed by default with no preference to turn this off. In Office 2004, the default was to have this turned off, with the ability to turn it on in preferences. Does anyone have a solution? Tag: Entourage 2008 Wish List Tag: 89132
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    - 32 GB database OK? I have read this page on the MVP site: http://www.entourage.mvps.org/database/size.html I have looked in the Entourage 2008 help files. I don't see anything about a size limit. Still, I have a client that started having problems, seemingly when his database hit 32 GB. Does anybody know if this size could cause problems? Is anybody running Entourage 2008 with a database larger than 32 GB? Tag: Entourage 2008 Wish List Tag: 89108
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    - Entourage Won't Launch (And Rebuild Does Nothing) Hello everyone. I am in serious tech trouble and need some assistance. I recently installed Office 08. For two weeks everything was great, but this morning I tried to launch Entourage and I got the dreaded "Entourage cannot access your data. To attempt to fix..." etc. I can think of no reason why I would have gotten this message. I have plenty of space and plenty of RAM. Alas, I have rebuilt four times, all to no avail. I even tried re-installing the software. Nothing. In a potentially related note, Word (while functional) also gives me a notice now that says something is wrong with the Database and instructs me to rebuild. Again, Word functions (does occasionally quit on me), but I can do NOTHING with Entourage. If anyone has ANY advice at all, I am completely all ears. Thank you in advance. Best, N Tag: Entourage 2008 Wish List Tag: 89105
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    - How can I share Project Center email settings? I can share projects, such as "the Smith Project", with coworkers on the Exchange server, but when I send them an email that I've categorized as "the Smith Project", it does not appear with the handy pink dot that helps me organize MY inbox, nor does it appear under their "the Smith Project" project center mail tab. It would be a huge help if everyone in the office were able to have their emails automatically labelled the same way for projects, and also be able to look at ALL the email in the office associated with a project. Tag: Entourage 2008 Wish List Tag: 89104
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    - entourage 2008 calendar Hi all my entries regularly vanish in entourage calendar view, usually when I have deleted a meeting. dont appear in any of the views available. only reappear when i close & restart entourage. V frustrating. any suggestions? Thanks Tag: Entourage 2008 Wish List Tag: 89103
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    - Importing Data into Entourage Calendar I am a new Mac user and I'm trying to get data from my PC info manager (in .CSV text form) into my new Mac. Looks like I should be able to import the file in entourage as a .CSV file but it keeps wanting to import it into a contacts file rather than into the calendar. Eventually I'd like to get the data into iCAl with a move from Entourage. iCal doesn't like the .CSV file format; it wants a.VCS. Can anyone help me? Thanks! Tag: Entourage 2008 Wish List Tag: 89099
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    - entourage - problems using email - multiple mail identities? Hi folks hope you can help with this problem. I'm not a tekkie so apologies if the terminology is dumb. I'm using Entourage (office 2004) on an intel iMac with OS 10.4.10. If I launch Entourage from the dock, the bar at the top of the window starts flashing and appears to be launching numerous Mail identities (I think that's what they're called). Anyhow - it gets up to around Mail 100 before it stops. And then everything just slooooows down. Can't close entourage - can't force quit. Can't shut down. It's taken me 15' to write this post. Office for Mac is the only non-apple programme on the computer. No third party stuff. Have repaired permissions - nothing seems wrong there. Any help much appreciated. Thanks Ians Tag: Entourage 2008 Wish List Tag: 89098
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    - Why blame MS I just read this entire thread to get a general idea of the issues that face someone trying to connect to Exchange with a MAC via Entourage. I have one question for everyone that blames MS when an update from Apple (10.5.2) broke something that was working perfectly. I have been using Entourage for about a month, and everything has been working fine, syncing my calendar to iCal with no issues whatsoever. After updating to 10.5.2, I have nothing but problems... Why the hell would we blame MS for this issue? It just doesn't make sense at all. Now ranting about both of them not fixing the problem as yet, I have no issue with, but back off the bash MS wagon when Apple obviously changed/broke the way sync services work. Tag: Entourage 2008 Wish List Tag: 89095
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    - Override Default IMAP port I am having a problem getting Entourage to consistently receive my email. I believe I have found the problem, but something about Entourage is preventing me from repairing it. When I create my email account, under "Receiving Mail" I click on "Click here for advanced receiving options" and enter the information required by my ISP. I check all three items: This IMAP service requires a secure connection, Override default IMAP port (and I set the port to 993 as required by my email provider), and Always use secure password. The problem is that "Override default IMAP port" always unchecks itself somehow. No matter what combination I try, when I go back in to that panel, the other two items are still checked and the Override default IMAP port has unchecked itself. The port that I entered, however, 993, stays the same. Can you tell me what is going wrong? I believe that this is what is causing my Entourage not to receive my emails. Thanks. Tag: Entourage 2008 Wish List Tag: 89094
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    - Updated w/ Entourage update 11.4.0 now emails take hours to send I have auto updates on my computer and on 2/12 or 2/13 Entourage 11.4.0 updated. Since then three of us in the office who all have this are having difficulties sending emails. Our emails show being sent immediately but don't actually arrive for 5-6 hours or sometimes even 24 hours. This occurs even if we blind copy ourselves as a test. Tag: Entourage 2008 Wish List Tag: 89092
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    - Microsoft Entourage 2008 - Upgrading Identity After having installed Microsoft Office 2008 on my MacBook and copied the Entourage Database from Entourage 2004 into the specific folder for Entourage 2008 (Microsoft User Date/Office 2008 Identities/Main Identity) Entourage is always "Upgrading Identity" while starting the programm. What can I do to eliminate this sometimes time consuming upgrading process. Entourage and its database works just fine. Thanks for your help. Daniel Tag: Entourage 2008 Wish List Tag: 89084
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    - E-Mail Address Move How do I import e-mail address from a Yahoo.com account to Entourage 2008? Tag: Entourage 2008 Wish List Tag: 89079
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    - Entourage Calendar Events Lost A couple of days ago, I opened Entourage and discovered about six months of events have disappeared from my calendar. Is there a way to retrieve this info? Also, when I'm working on email, I keep getting an "unknown error (16008) occurred". This computer is not hooked up to an exchange server. Tag: Entourage 2008 Wish List Tag: 89078
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    - Sound Questions How do you select different sounds for the various alerts? The help says that you can use the drop down to select different sets, but they only thing there is "Default" and I don't see how to add to it. Also, are the speaker icons in Entourage working for anyone? Whenever I click on one, I don't hear anything. BTW, one piece of information, if you change where alerts are played in the system preferences (in Leopard, at least), it seems you have to restart Entourage for it to pick up on that change. Until I did that, I wasn't hearing alerts sounds for anything. Tag: Entourage 2008 Wish List Tag: 89077
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    - Entourage - Exchange One appt won't sync I have one appointment on one calendar that won't synchronize with one of my computers. The appointment shows on my PC, my Mac at home, my Mac at the office and through OWA, but on my new Macbook Air this one appointment and only this one appointment won't show up. From what I can see, all my other appointments show up fine. In an attempt to resolve it I've removed the Exchange account from Entourage on the Macbook Air and then readded it. Entourage removed all the appointments and then reloaded them all, but this one appointment didn't show. Does anyone have any guesses about what could be happening? Thanks, Alex Tag: Entourage 2008 Wish List Tag: 89076
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    - managing distribution lists I work for a college department and I keep a large email distribution list of students and alumni. When I send out an email to the distribution list, I get a lot of returned emails. Is there any way or any software that helps you clean up distribution lists ? Or is the only way to do it is to open up each returned email and then search for the email address in the distribution list and delete it? Tag: Entourage 2008 Wish List Tag: 89070
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    - Entourage 2008 - Attachments not forwarded When I receive an email with attachments from a sender, the attachments do not appear when forwarding to another recipient? Help! Tag: Entourage 2008 Wish List Tag: 89069
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    - moving distribution list I have an extensive distribution list in Outlook for the PC. Is there a way to move it into Entourage? Tag: Entourage 2008 Wish List Tag: 89067
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    - Search problems Wondering if anyone out there can help me. Entourage 2008 is not searching at all. When I do a search it always comes up blank, even when it's something I can see in the window on top. I've tried both simple and complex searches, and neither works. I've set it up so that Entourage will use Spotlight. I can't set up any custom views (though the preinstalled ones work and can be edited). I've tried indexing the data, rebuilding the file. Nothing. All help welcomed...... Clive Tag: Entourage 2008 Wish List Tag: 89066
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    - 2004 and 2008 difference missing Why isn't the lack of Macros in Excel 2008 shown in the feature comparison chart? http://www.microsoft.com/mac/itpros/default.mspx?CTT=PageView&app=ag&target= 0b2bd490-71ea-49ea-a128-596760c557031033 Regards Tag: Entourage 2008 Wish List Tag: 89064
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    - 2008 Microsoft Database Utility - Issues I am having major issues with the 2000 Microsoft Database Utility v12.0 and would like to know if others are having problems. I am trying to change from Office 2004 to Office 2008 and had no problem installing or converting my Entourage 2004 Mail over to Entourage 2008. The mail seemed to work find. The ONLY problem I encounter was with the new Microsoft Database Utility. It would Verify okay but when I tied to compact my primary identity, it would HANG and quit responding after about getting 90% complete. The Rebuilt would run to about 80% of pass 4 of 5 then encounter and error and just quit. I do not think there is anything wrong with my 2004 identity as I just ran the old 2004 Database Utility and it passed both Compact and Rebuilt. I even tied deleting all messages in 2008 identity and the Microsoft Database Utility would hang just quit. Help..... anyone been able to Compact or Rebuilt a transfered identity using the 2008 Microsoft Data base Utility? The reason for asking is to assess if there is bug or glitch in the new utility or is there something wrong with my database. Tag: Entourage 2008 Wish List Tag: 89063
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    - Office 2004, Entourage, Calendar events have duplicate events in my calendar, many of them, rather than individually deleting them, and going back for years, how can i get rid of all duplicates, and stop the calendar for events older than 1 year? i am talking about ongoing birthday's, anniversaries, that recurs. Thanks Tag: Entourage 2008 Wish List Tag: 89059
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    - Default Hi, I have just opened entourage and it has reset back to default, lost all emails, addresses everything ah... can anyone help? Tag: Entourage 2008 Wish List Tag: 89058
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    - Lost all my email. Please help. The situation is far worse than what I posted yesterday. After spending about four hours deleting thousands of emails, I thought I should rebuild the database because the delete folder would not empty and because I could not make Entourage quit except by force quitting. But when I opened it again, it was like a new program--not a single thing was there. I tried to open the Old Database, but the same thing happened or it wouldn't open at all. The program kept opening to a "saved identity" from July. I don't understand that at all. As bad luck would have it, my computer was set to save automatically while this was going on, so my saved Identity on another disk is doing the same thing. Is there any way to recover this? I am truly desperate. My entire work life is in that program. Tag: Entourage 2008 Wish List Tag: 89055
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    - Printing out task list In either portrait or landscape I cannot get a more complete view of the task column, resulting in an extremely brief task list entry. How do you adjust the column width in tasks? Tag: Entourage 2008 Wish List Tag: 89053
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    - Xfer Outlook Express 6 to Entourage 2008 I recently purchased an iMac and then loaded Office for Mac 2008 hoping to use Entourage for email. On my old PC I've been using Outlook Express 6 for a while and I'd like to know how to import my mail, folders and address book into Entourage. Why doesn't MS make this easy to find/do on their website? Thanks in advance for the help! Chris Tag: Entourage 2008 Wish List Tag: 89052
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    - Synch Services "Repair" I have received an error message that Synch Services is damaged, and since I received that message, my Calendar is no longer transferring to iCal (and then, of course, not to my iPhone). Any odeas on how to repair??? Tag: Entourage 2008 Wish List Tag: 89046
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    - User Data / Identity location Is it possible to move the user identity folder to another location - i.e. Other than the default ..>Documents >Microsoft User Data >Office xxxx Identities >Identity Name ? Regards David M Tag: Entourage 2008 Wish List Tag: 89040
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    - 5.1.2 Bad or missing RCPT domain i4sm10963883rng.7 I keep getting the error "5.1.2 Bad or missing RCPT domain i4sm10963883rng.7" when I try to email to a group, using Entourage 2008. Anybody know what I need to do to fix the error so I can get the email sent? Many thanks! Tag: Entourage 2008 Wish List Tag: 89039
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    - Office Reminders and Birthdays In Office 2008, the Office Reminders show all birthdays entered into Entourage as a day before the actual birthday. My date and time zone are correct in system preferences and in Entourage. The birthdays are also correctly entered. However, they are wrong in the reminder pane. Tag: Entourage 2008 Wish List Tag: 89038
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    - Entourage 2008 internal error message I just installed Office 2008 and as soon as Entoruage launches it show an internal error message. It continues to loop through this same error as it checks accounts and rules. I have a pop and imap account that was in one mailbox in Entoruage 2004 I also had a lot of rules. I tried to get into the Tools menu to disable the extra account and rules but this menu seems to be broken, the sub menus don't open when navigating to them. I have removed and reinstalled with the same problem. I see from other websites that other people are having a similar problem so I can assume that I don't have a bad install dvd. I have the student version. I had this same version in the 2004 verion of office and ran multiple accounts on one identity with many rules. What is wrong? I did follow the installation instructions and had quit all applications before installing. I am running 10.4.11 of OS Tag: Entourage 2008 Wish List Tag: 89030
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    - Why wont entourage wont automatically download messages? Good Afternoon, I have turned on everything to automatically download messages (and no limit on size of message) but still entourage wont actually automatically download them. Instead, it simply tells me how many messages I have then I have to click on each folder and wait for it to actually download them. This is rather annoying since I have several accounts and some mail rules that goto different folders so I find myself having to click several different folders and wait just to find that half of it is spam that I could have deleted in a second if it actually had automatically downloaded. Does anyone know of a fix or a script that could accomplish this? Thank you in advance, Jerry Tag: Entourage 2008 Wish List Tag: 89021
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    - Entourage Exchange I have the Home and Student Edition of Microsoft Office 2004. Entourage has allowed me email and contact information from my office's Exchange server. I buy the Home and Student Edition of Microsoft Office 2008, expecting an upgrade in functionality, and find that Entourage 2008 will not allow the same (in fact, no access to) Exchange services I had with the prior edition. I paid $149 for the upgrade and get reduced functionality? How on Earth can Microsoft justify this? Tag: Entourage 2008 Wish List Tag: 89020
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    - Duplicate holiday entries I normally use Entourage but I need to maintain iCal because that is how I sync with iPhone. I keep getting duplicate holiday entries in entourage, which are then added to the Entourage calendar on iCal, even though I only imported holidays in to Entourage once. This seems to happen randomly. The last time the computer added a new set of duplicate holidays I accidentally opened iCal, even though I normally use Entourage. I do not sync through .mac. Does anyone know how to prevent this? I've also tried deleting duplicate holidays, but can't accomplish this because the only instructions to do this depend on the fact that categories were established for the holiday entries, and I don't use categories for any of my calendar entries in Entourage. Tag: Entourage 2008 Wish List Tag: 89019
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    - How do I get rid of the "time sent" or received heading? The list of email messages in my entourage inbox and other mail folders has headings saying when the messages were sent or received. For example, "2 weeks ago," "Friday," "Yesterday," etc. I find that this takes up too much space and is annoying. Is there a way to not display this information? Tag: Entourage 2008 Wish List Tag: 89015
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    - Delete Multiple Apoontments on One Day I seem to have an exchange issue (perhaps corrupt) file. It loaded what appears to be about 100 appointments on one day. Is there an easy way to delete them in mass. This select, delete, pop up "Are you Sure" Yes or No" is nuts. My fingers are sore. Tag: Entourage 2008 Wish List Tag: 89013
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    - Return to a previous editing location OS 10.4.11 Ibook G4 1.5 GB Ram Word 2004 Hi Why does word help tell me that Shift+F5 will give me "Return to a previous editing location", when what I get when I press SHIFT+F5 is sound volume control? Thanks, Rafael Tag: Entourage 2008 Wish List Tag: 89002
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    - Recieving blank emails in Entourage One of our users is getting "some text in this message is in a language your computer cannot display" occasionally when receiving a email. Shes running entourage 11.3.9 and is set up the same as the rest of our users who are not experiencing issues. I've deleted MS office and the preferences and re-installed as well as rebuilt her profile to no avail. Please let me know if you have any thoughts for testing or if you require any more information. Thanks, Serrix Tag: Entourage 2008 Wish List Tag: 89001

A couple of simple things I'd like in Entourage 2008:
o A Trifold printout of my day like in Outlook
o Ability to set a default email font color
o Full Exchange synchronization

Well, the first two should be pretty simple, huh?

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Re: Entourage 2008 Wish List by Diane

Diane
Tue Feb 19 20:43:30 CST 2008

On 2/19/08 7:14 AM, in article ee8dfe3.-1@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw,
"NNicholaou@officeformac.com" <NNicholaou@officeformac.com> wrote:

> A couple of simple things I'd like in Entourage 2008:
> o A Trifold printout of my day like in Outlook
> o Ability to set a default email font color
> o Full Exchange synchronization
>
> Well, the first two should be pretty simple, huh?

LOL

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