Could the display name be recorded slightly differently?Unfortunately, Add to Address Book only works for senders, not recipients. You'd need to do it via a script. I don't know if anyone has made such a script yet. Here's a simple version that will work on selected Sent messages:
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
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Wow, yes, that did what I needed, even eliminated most duplicates. (I found a few apparently identical entries, which should not have happened, but I'm not complaining.)
That method makes a "clipping", which is not text and is evidently not readable on a PC, and maybe not even by Word Mac (unless you go via the Scrapbook). Instead, close the group. Select the group (closed) in the Address Book and simply drag and drop to a Word document (or TextEdit, or Excel). Save. That gives you a list with each name&address on its own line, and the group name at the top. (If there's any situation where you'd prefer the list to be soft wrapped on one line, comma-delimited, copy and paste instead of drag-and-drop.)
I wish I had time and sufficient spare brain cells to pick up scripting sufficient to do a task like this, but it seems that we all have limits. Thanks for the fish (immediate solution) and the clear example, which I could probably modify for related purposes.
I tried to export the resulting Group by dragging it to the Desktop as instructed by Entourage Help/the Export "wizard". The document title looked right (showed the range of addresses), the Preview Icon was correctly generated (showed some of the addresses) but the file was apparently empty when viewed in Notepad and Word. Don't tell me... I can use a script to export addresses any way I want.
Thanks again!
Glad it helped.
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Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>
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