Thanks Paul for explaining but I am still lacking a solution. I commented on
your response.
Thanks/h
On 1/25/03 8:34 PM, "Paul Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 1/25/03 8:18 PM, "R. Hannes Niedner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Most of the names that added by double-clicking on the senders email address
>> in a received message seemed to be stored internally in double quotes.
>>
>> For example if I produce an email list and add the names they would show up
>> like :
>> "Firstname Lastname" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> What's an "email list"?
A GROUP of email addresses.
>>
>> While the rest shows up as expected:
>> Firstname Lastname <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> The rest of what? You're not being entirely clear.
The other addresses.
>
> If the display name has any punctuation, such as a middle initial with a
> period ("Joe A. Blow") or a comma ("Blackguards, Inc"). Entourage always
> puts it in quotes. It has to, otherwise the period will be interpreted as
> art of an email address and the comma will be interpreted as a separator
> between recipients, making a mess. In other cases, the sending email client
> will out even ordinary display names ("Joe Blow") in quotes, but Entourage
> is smart and doesn't display those in the frame headers. Nevertheless,
> they're there. So if you copy and paste, you'll see them Blame the senders.
Ok sounds reasonable.....
>>
>> This has for example the effect that the address input in Word does not pick
>> up the quoted names.
Still my question remains how do I get Word to pick up the names (I am
missing about 40 % of all my contacts at it appears to be the ones with
quoted names. Or how do get rid of the quotes - I would be very disappointed
if I had to delete and recreate all these contacts - but I don't see them in
any of the editable fields in Erage.
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