Re: Script to Copy/Paste Entourage Message Bodies
Re: Script to Copy/Paste Entourage Message Bodies
- Subject: Re: Script to Copy/Paste Entourage Message Bodies
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 20:42:47 -0800
On 3/25/03 6:53 PM, "Ramona Rock" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Thank you for explaining everything Paul, it's nice to understand more why
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things work . . . Or don't work. :)
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This is getting long so I'm going to just put my responses at the top here.
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The short response is I just didn't know yet I was asking a stupid question.
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:) The longer response is, with regard to the rich text thing, I haven't
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used TextEdit that much yet since I have Word, but wanted to use it for this
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since I understood it to be more easily scripted. Thus, I didn't really
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understand "rich text." I had been previously accomplishing what I needed
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the script to accomplish by manually copying and pasting Entourage message
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bodies into a TextEdit doc. Obviously, THAT got really tedious really fast,
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hence the need for the script. However, when I was doing the tedious thing
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the resulting document was much easier to read, and seemed to want to save
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itself as "rich text" or rtf. I let it do that, and thought the better
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legibility was due to that format. The script you wrote sends the stuff in
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Monoco, in a very small font, next to impossible to read. But I'm now
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realizing what I can and should do is just change the font and the size to
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something my eyeballs can handle post running of script, leaving it a plain
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text doc with the .txt extension, so my other apps will recognize it.
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Thinking I needed "rich text" was just a misunderstanding of the format on
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my part. Sorry! And thanks again for your help!
No trouble. It's how we all learn. What you should do is go into TextEdit's
preferences in the TextEdit menu, and change the font and size preferences
for Plain Text to something you like looking at. then it will display that
font and size every time you open a plain text file, and you won't need to
change it for every document.
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Paul Berkowitz
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