Kyle
Mon Nov 10 04:20:53 CST 2003
Thanks for the reply, Paul. I'll try to get her to go with the merged
categories. Unfortunately, she's not very comfortable with her ability to
perform multi-step operations and she wants me to find her a way to print
labels that was as simple as your script on her old Mac.
"Paul Berkowitz" <berkowit@spoof_silcom.com> wrote in message
news:BBD48355.47788%berkowit@spoof_silcom.com...
> On 11/9/03 2:57 PM, in article ezhSUTxpDHA.2592@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl,
"Kyle
> Burns" <kyle.REMOVE.INVALID.ADD.AT.CaliberIS.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm helping a friend transition to a new iBook running OS10 from her old
> > iMac running OS9. One of the few issues remaining is address labels.
She
> > was using an AppleScript that would print address labels based on the
> > selected entries in her address book. This script requires Akua Sweets,
> > which I cannot get to load on her OS10 box (I keep getting a message
about
> > needing "classic" loaded).
> >
> > Our first attempt to get around this was to use the MailMerge feature of
> > Word X, but it doesn't meet her needs because the MailMerge seems to
only
> > account for a contact being in a single category and the Export
Entourage X
> > script uses delimiters that MailMerge doesn't recognize, so we're back
to
> > square one. I'm a proficient programmer on the PC platform, but have
not
> > done any programming for Mac. My thought is that I need a script to do
the
> > following:
> >
> > 1. Delete a certain file if it already exists
> > 2. Create an empty file
> > 3. Write each selected contact (with delimiters that can be recognized
by
> > MailMerge) out to the file
> > 4. Kick off Word opening a new document based on a template with the
> > MailMerge set to read the desired file
> >
> > Can anybody help get me there or give a better suggestion?
>
> I did not adapt the "Office for Office" (NOT Export) scripts for Office v.
X
> because they're not necessary. Data Merge Manager in Word does allow you
to
> select contacts in the Address Book in Word. At the very end of the Data
> Merge process, click Query button on the bottom. That allows you to select
a
> category. You can then go through the Address Book window that has come
up,
> and select (or deselect) individual contacts as well.
>
> If there are too many in the second category to add individually
> comfortably, then make a combined category in Entourage first. First make
a
> new category "Combined Cat" (or whatever). Then make a new Custom View ,
or
> Advanced Find, of Contacts (only)
>
> matching if ANY criteria are met
>
> and specify
>
> Category is cat1
> Category is cat2
>
> Now you'll have a list of all contacts of both categories. Select them all
> (cmd-A). click on the category column, and click "Assign Category..." so
the
> big Categories window comes up. Check "Combined Cat", but do NOT check the
> box at the bottom that assigns the Primary category. That way they'll keep
> the color of their usual category. Click OK.
>
> Back in Word, do the Merge and select "Combined Cat" as the category in
> Query. That will do it.
>
>
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> Paul Berkowitz
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