On 1/21/03 3:56 PM, "Norman W. Ferguson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The current default (as I understood from Paul's earlier missive) of sorting
> by creation order when such fields are empty would almost never be useful,
> IMHO.
It doesn't actually _do_ anything to sort by that order. That's just what
happens since it doesn't do anything.
What you could do would be to add (to any other categories they may have) a
category "Company" to all contacts of this sort (no names). That's simple to
do by just shift-clicking the top and bottom contacts of that group at the
top of the Address Book, to select the bunch, then command-clicking
individually any which don't have a company either (just email address) to
de-select just those, then clicking (NOT command-clicking) in the Category
column of any selected contact and select "Company" category. That will add
Company category to all of them in one fell swoop.
Then make a custom view of contacts whose category is Company. Sort those by
the Company column and there you are. Any time you look through the Address
Book and don't find your contact in the alphabetical part as Name, switch to
the custom view. (Frankly, what I would do would be to flip to QuickFilter
to Company, and type in a few letters of the company, but that's me. Seems
the best solution to me.)
You could have a script in the the Script menu called
Open Company View \mcC
which will open the custom view by pressing control-command-C. If your
custom view is called "Companies", the script would be simply:
tell application "Microsoft Entourage" to open custom view "Companies"
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