Dan, this is brilliant! I don't know that anyone else has discovered this technique, so I'm going to add it to our MVP FAQ help pages (by passing it on to Diane Ross as a suggestion).
Diane...the "complete question" would be, "How do I copy a contact's complete address to the clipboard, including both home and work addresses, email addresses, and so on?" -- Microsoft MVP for Entourage/OE/Word (MVPs are volunteers) Allen Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Entourage FAQ site: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/> AppleScripts for Outlook Express and Entourage: <http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/Scripts/> Entourage FAQ Help Pages: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/> > From: Dan Frakes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 22:04:45 -0700 > To: Entourage-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: How do I copy a complete address to clipboard? > > On 9/29/02 8:13 PM, "Julian Vrieslander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Now suppose I want to quickly copy someone's mailing address into another >> document. As far as I know, this is done by using the popup menu next to >> the Street address field, and then selecting "Copy name and address...". >> But this does not grab the text for Company and Department, which is usually >> part of the address. > > > Turn Preview Pane on for the Address Book. Find your contact, and the > preview pane will show you a summary of all the info in the contact record. > Hold the shift key down and select all of the items you want to copy to the > clipboard. > > (You can also "select all" to copy everything in the contact, but the > clipboard text will then include the field names -- Home address, Telephone > -- in addition to the values in those fields.) > > For me, the easiest way to do this quickly is to hit command+2 (to switch to > the Address Book), make sure the Preview Pane is turned on (command+\ to > toggle), then use the filter to find the contact in question. > > > > -- > To unsubscribe: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > archives: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> > old-archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/> -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
