emailing to a group of contacts

[Jo6f]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel
Email Client: pop

Hello
I'm a very new user of Mac having been a fairly skilled user of MS Windows.
I have set up my contacts in the Mac address book (the brownish book that is automatically installed in the Command line), and made them into groups.
I use Entourage to start a new email message.
When I type the name of one of my groups, it is not recognised by the Entourage automatic search.
If I type it the group name full, then the email is not sent because it is just a typed name, not a list of emails.
If I drag the group name across from the address book to the email message nothing happens.

I'm at my wits end. The Entourage help on the Mactopia website seems to imply that Entourage should recognise the group name as soon as I start typing it, but it doesn't.
Have I missed something obvious- for instance is there a different address book used by Entourage from the Apple-supplied one?
Help please. My productivity has gone to zero since getting the Mac.

 

[William Smith [MVP]]

I'm a very new user of Mac having been a fairly skilled user of MS
Windows. I have set up my contacts in the Mac address book (the
brownish book that is automatically installed in the Command line),
and made them into groups. I use Entourage to start a new email
message. When I type the name of one of my groups, it is not
recognised by the Entourage automatic search. If I type it the group
name full, then the email is not sent because it is just a typed
name, not a list of emails. If I drag the group name across from the
address book to the email message nothing happens.

Entourage has its own Address Book. In the upper left corner of the main
window click the second small icon of the six icons that appear there.

Entourage cannot use Apple's Address Book.

I believe you should be able to drag and drop your Apple Address Book
contacts into the Entourage Address Book. Entourage will recognize them
then.

Hope this helps!

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bill

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[Jo6f]

Hi Bill
Thanks for this information.
It rather saddens me that the match between MS Office for Mac and Apple software is so limited, but at least it gives me a way of achieving what I was doing on Windows.
By the way, can anyone help me with how to put hyperlinks into emails? This is another facility that seems to have been missed out of Entourage compared with MS Outlook
Many thanks
Jo6f

 

[Diane Ross]

Entourage cannot use Apple's Address Book.

It can sync with the Apple Address Book though. Turn on Sync Services in
Entourage Preferences under Entourage in the Menu bar.

Entourage and the Apple Address Book do not sync everything. Categories are
different and I'm not sure about groups.

I did run across an interesting little application yesterday that allows you
to export your Apple Address Book to a tab delimited file. You can open this
in Excel and edit so Entourage will recognize the same fields. It has an
Entourage template. See the bottom of this page for links:

Import Export Contacts

By the way, can anyone help me with how to put hyperlinks into emails? This is
another facility that seems to have been missed out of Entourage compared with
MS Outlook

You can insert hyperlinks but not words that are active links.

³Insert URLs into a message²

<http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/2007/07/insert_urls_into_a_message.html>

Favorite Scripts to use with Entourage Part 2

<http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/2008/07/favorite_scripts.html>


You should start with #1 in the AppleScript series to learn how AppleScripts
work and how to assign shortcuts.

Cheers and Welcome to Mac! I have a few tips and links posted to help new
users here:

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/new2mac/index.html>