Ent 10.1.4 OS 10.3.2
Paul
Last week you taught me that if I choose a colored font for my reply, if I want to use that colored font in other places in the email (disconnected from my first use of colored font), I just need to click on the large "A" at the top of the color pull-down, and don't have to actually pull down and reselect the color. That was a great short cut. I'm wondering if there is a key stroke that does that same function so I don't need to go to the mouse and move to the "A." Thanks for your reply.
Richard
It doesn't look like it. None that I can find. I hoped that maybe if you had a couple of particular colors you regularly used, a keyboard shortcut could be defined for each (like "Maroon" and "Navy", say) in the Keyboard Shortcut section of System Preferences/Keyboard & Mouse. For some reason, that doesn't work for colors in Format/Font Color menu although it does work for other menu items in Entourage.
However, AppleScript to the rescue. First you have to enable what's called "GUI scripting". You do that by going to System Preferences/Universal Access, and check the box "Enable Access for Assistive Devices".
Then copy and paste this script into Script Editor:
tell application "Microsoft Entourage" to activate
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Microsoft Entourage"
pick menu item "Maroon" of menu "Color" of menu item "Font Color" of menu "Format" of menu bar item "Format" of menu bar 1
end tell
end tell
Save this script in Entourage Script Menu Items folder in MUD folder. Assign it a name adding an unused keyboard shortcut (They're getting hard to find) according to the rules in Help/AppleScript/About the script menu, e.g.
Maroon \comM
and now you can call it with control-option-command-M whenever you're composing an HTML message.
Make another copy of the script but substitute "Navy" in the pick menu item line, and name it
Navy \comN
and now you can call it with control-option-command-N whenever you're composing an HTML message.
And so on. If you're contemplating a different shortcut, try it out first while writing an HTML message in the front to see if it already does anything. If it does, find another one instead.
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Paul Berkowitz
MVP Entourage
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>
PLEASE always state which version of Entourage you are using - **2004**, X or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions otherwise.
