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Script Help

  1. Where to find Scripts
  2. AppleScript Resources
  3. Report Problems with Scripts
  4. Find Entourage Script Folder
  5. Using AppleScripts
  6. Add Keyboard Shortcuts to Scripts
  7. Copying Scripts
  8. Some Favorite Scripts
  9. Apple's Script Menu

You can find AppleScripts at the following locations. (Most scripts are free.)

Script Builders at Macsripter.net

Paul Berkowitz's AppleScripts

Allen Watson's AppleScripts

Barry Wainwright's AppleScripts

AppleScript Central has moved all it's scripts to Macscripter.net.

Report Problems with Scripts

If you are having problems with a downloaded script (rendering the script inoperable or a constant error message on launch, for example), please contact the script's author directly for assistance and follow-up. Most script authors provide a link for e-mail contact; otherwise, most scripts found on macscripter.net have a link for the author's e-mail and website.

Note: Office X: Be sure you have applied the Office 10.1.2 updater. This fixed a previous problem with Applescript.

Finding the Entourage Script Folder

The Entourage Script Menu Items folder is located in the Microsoft User Data Folder. If you haven't moved it, the folder is located in you Documents folder.

Entourage X and 2004 :

~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office X Identities/your identity

Entourage 2001:

<Startup Disk>:Documents/Microsoft User Data: Office 2001 Identities:your identity

Note: your identity is called Main Identity unless you rename it.

You can run this script to locate your script folder:

tell application "Microsoft Entourage" to set theMUD to path to MUD
 tell application "Finder" to open theMUD

Using AppleScripts in Entourage

This is a simple "get started" lesson on using prepared AppleScripts.

First you don't have to write scripts to use AppleScripts.

In the Menu Bar for Entourage, you will see the script icon. Pull down on the Script icon and you will see the scripts that have been installed with Entourage. These scripts are found in the Entourage Script Menu Items located in the Documents/Microsoft User Data Folder:

By default, this menu includes several scripts that you can use to create a task, note, or other type of item from a message that you select. To run a script from the script menu, select the script.

You can add scripts. Just drop a script into the Entourage Script Menu Items folder within the Microsoft User Data folder. You can also add up to sixteen subfolders inside of the Entourage Script Menu Items folder, if you use a lot of scripts and want to organize them. Additional scripts can be found at the here.

Scripts are often posted on lists. You can copy these into the Apple Script Editor (or other script editors like Smile, which is free, or Script Debugger, which is not). Save them as compiled scripts. . Then move or copy the compiled script file to the Entourage Script Menu Items folder in your Documents/Microsoft User Data folder.

Note: You can add menu items only for compiled scripts.Script applications will not show up in the menu.

Apple's Script Menu

Script Menu is a script access utility provided by Apple that resides in the Finder menu bar. It provides easy access to dozens of useful scripts that help you perform tasks such as batch editing of file or folder names, creating FontSync profiles, or sending a quick email message.

Go to Applications/AppleScript/. You'll find Script Menu.menu. Either double-click it or drag it to the top menu bar to install.

Uses for Script Menu with Entourage:

The script to import contacts/addresses into Apple's Address Book can be found in the Mail folder.

I suggest you place the "quit Microsoft Database Daemon" in the Script menu folder. Info on this script can be found here.