Hi Barry - would you feel like modifying this at all? Can you make it set the subject to the name of the first attachment (if one exists) as the default text, then if there is no attachment, have it grab the first 50 characters of the body?
-Steve On 2/9/05 11:58 AM, "Barry Wainwright" wrote: > On 8/2/05 11:39 pm, "Beth Rosengard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 2/8/05 3:19 PM, "Scott Haneda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> I get a lot of no subject emails from clients, is there any simple way to >>> add one in? >> >> Double-click on the message to open it in its own window and click on >> Message> Edit Message. You can now change the subject. Is that what you >> mean? >> >> Beth >> > > Alternatively, use this script. It will take the first few words of the body > and offer it to you for editing before changing the subject for you. > > Save the script as a compiled script & put it in the �Entourage Script Menu > Items� folder in your �Microsoft User Data� folder. The script can be > manually run from the menu (see on-line help for details of how to assign a > keystroke to the script). > > > This URL should load the script into script editor: > http://tinyurl.com/3owjv > > If it doesn't, copy/paste it from here: >> >> tell application "Microsoft Entourage" >> try >> set theMessage to item 1 of (get current messages) >> set defaultSubject to paragraph 1 of (get content of theMessage) >> if count defaultSubject > 50 then set defaultSubject to text 1 thru >> (-1 - (get offset of " " in (reverse of characters of defaultSubject as >> string))) of defaultSubject >> set subject of theMessage to text returned of (display dialog "Please >> enter a new subject for this message:" default answer defaultSubject buttons >> {"Cancel", "OK"} default button 2 with icon note) >> on error >> display dialog "Please select a message before running this script" >> buttons {"Abort"} default button 1 with icon stop >> end try >> end tell > > -- 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/>
