Re: Contact Highlighting Only Happens Sometimes

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On 5/13/05 10:55 AM, in article BEAA542E.7443%martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
"Martin Nelson" <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It is such an interesting challenge writing subject lines for these things.

Indeed. ;-)
>
> I notice that if I am typing in Word a name that appears in my Entourage
> Address Book, Word will often prompt to complete the name for me. It then
> appears on my monitor highlighted in gray and underlined with red dots.
> Control clicking on the name, I am offered a bunch of options like include
> address, phone number, etc.
>
> This is pretty cool, but it only seems to do this with some contacts. The
> best I can tell, it only works if there is more than simply a name and one
> or more email addresses in the contact. Is that right? Is there a way to
> make it work regardless of how much info is in the contact?

You've found something very interesting here. I don't believe you've got the
pattern right though - I can't find a pattern. I've found a few
name+one-email-address contacts where an auto-complete tooltip _does_ come
up, plus several contacts with lots of information including two phone
numbers where the contact tooltip does not come up. ZI can't work out any
pattern. When it works, it works only starting with first names, and appears
when the name becomes unique after about 4 characters or so.

I'll see if I can find out whether it's meant to appear for all contacts and
is a bug when it doesn't, or if there's some method to the madness.

If you display the Contact toolbar and start typing any contact name in its
text field, the contact will always turn up there and can be clicked to
insert into the document, where the red dots and other fields are available.


--
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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