Re: Put Entourage on send menu (word).

Daiya Mitchell <daiyaNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > What was interesting was that when I started up the pref pane it showed
> > Eudora 6.2.1 as the default email app already - suggesting perhaps that
> > the default is set correctly and that Word is ignoring it?
>
> If you test mail-to links in Safari or another web browser, that will give
> you a hint whether it is the OS or Office. This page has a bunch of mail-to
> links--links designed to open up a new message in your email software--if
> you have not yet tested this because you didn't know what I was talking
> about or where to find such links. It's not quite the same mechanism, but it
> ought to all work similarly.
> http://www.macilife.com/contact/index.html
>
> If the mail-to links work in Safari, you could also create some mail-to
> links in Word or Excel and see how they work, to narrow down the problem.
> (Tools | AutoCorrect, AutoFormat As You Type, check the box for "replace
> internet paths with hyperlinks, exit, then type an email address in a doc.
> That will create a mail-to link).
>
> Did you restart or login/logout after using RCDefaultApp? That might make a
> difference.

Thanks Daiya!

I tried the mail to links in Safari and they work correctly, I can
determine which email app (Mail or Eudora) is used using the default app
pref pane.

Making a mail to link in Word and clicking it also opens the correct app
as defined by the default app pref pane.

Logging out / in does not seem to be necessary. For the mail to links
mentioned above it switches on the fly. When I was setting the default
app before, even a system restart did not change Office behaviour.

So where does THAT leave us??!!

Thanks again to you both for sticking with this.

Merl
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