Aug 17, '05 07:55:00AM • Contributed by: roncross@cox.net
In Entourage, when you open up an email message, you do not know which folder the email message is coming from, since it is not written across the title bar. If you have several email messages open from several different folders, it becomes difficult to know what action to perform on any given email. You have to go back to the browser window and try to figure it out. I have actually moved emails to the wrong folder, and deleted emails unknowingly, because of not being able to quickly locate the folder of an email.
To solve this problem, I have created a simple AppleScript that will quickly show the folder of the open message in Entourage for just under a couple of seconds. After you know which folder the email belongs too, you can perform the proper action on the email with confidence.
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
activate
set myfoldername to name of storage of displayed message ¬
of front window
display dialog "the message is in folder" & " " & ¬
myfoldername giving up after 1.5
end tell
Save the above as a script in the ~/Documents -> Microsoft User Data -> Entourage Script Menu Items folder. You can put \cW at the end of the filename to activate the script via Control-W in any Entourage window.
