Re: Keystroke to send

This not only happens to me all the time, it's now fairly permanent,
using Entourage 2004.

Restarting and trashing Entourage .plist files help, but within the
hour, Command-Return does not work. Oddly, if I continue hitting it 4-6
times, in rapid succession, the message *always* eventually gets sent
out. It's the strangest behavior, and people always look at me funny
when I'm doing it.

A couple of notes on Craig Deutsch's suggestions:

> Kevs, if you click New mail item and then look at the Message menu, does the
> Post Message Now item have a keyboard short next to it, i.e. Command-Return?
> If yes, then somehow it's been corrupted.

I don't think that's true. The Command-Return shows regardless of if
the shortcut is working or not.

Two notes on Craig's sequence:
1. In Entourage 2004, it is Menu: Message: Send Message Now
2. Apple's Keyboard Shortcuts doesn't seem to be able to accept
Command-Return. It'll take a letter, or number, but not the Return key.
I hope someone can prove me wrong on this, because I do think this
could fix the behavior. But so far, Command-Return won't stick.


> 1) Open System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse.
> 2) Click on the Keyboard Shortcuts tab. Down near the bottom is a section
> called Application Keyboard Shortcuts. Create a new one for Entourage by
> clicking on the "+" icon.
> 3) From the ensuing menu, choose Microsoft Entourage. If Entourage doesn't
> appear in the default list, then click "Other" from the last item in the
> menu and navigate the Applications directory to find Entourage.
> 4) In the Menu Title box, type the following exactly, respecting CAPS:
> "Post Message Now" (no quotation marks)
> 5) In the Keyboard Shortcut box, hit the command you want to use
> (Command-Return).

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