Please create subtask support in Entourage, in a similar fashion to Franklin Covey’s PlanPlus software (PC) has implemented. Unfortunately, since PlanPlus does not have OS X support, I’m stuck with just placing the subtasks for each task in the notes section of each task..

Looking forward to the updates,
Mark

Cheers!

If you type a URL, starting with http://, Entourage will automatically make it a clickable URL in the preview pane or in the message window. It’s true that you cannot directly insert a hyperlink the way you can in Outlook or Outlook Express, but there are two ways of getting that result nevertheless:

1) you don’t mention which version of Entourage you are using. If it’s 2004, and Entourage is set as your default email client, you can compose your email message in Word 2004, with hyperlinks, and then go to File>Send To>Mail Recipient (HTML). This will encode your current Word document in HTML format and pass it on to Entourage.

2) you can use Paul Berkowitz’ free AppleScript Send Hyperlinks X, which you can find here (instructions included in the readme file):

http://scriptbuilders.net/files/makehyperlinksx2.2.1.html

As I’ve said, there is currently no way to insert hyperlinks in Entourage itself, which I think is a grave omission. And it has been mentioned a number of times already, so hopefully, Microsoft will listen at some point. For the time being, however, Paul’s script does the job for me.

Note also:

If you put “http://” (minus the quotes) in front of the web address (ie: http://www.spiderrobinson.com/), it should be a hotlink/hyperlink on the recipient’s end. If you choose Mail Link to This Page in Safari (Shift+CMD+I), it uses this format.

The email address should work if you just put it in the email, as a precaution you can put “mailto:” in front of the email address.

Have you thought of asking in the Usenet news group — microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage

Or hunting around on the unofficial Entourage Support page – http://www.entourage.mvps.org/index.html ?

If this is a feature that is not included, I will probably go back to Mail, because that would be an omission that is unacceptable in my view, and why in the world would that not be possible?? It must be there, & I just am a frustrated newbie.

If there is a way to do this, could someone enlighten me?? I found this site by Google searching for ” how do you insert a link in Entourage?”.

I have over 75 user using this application to read there email, and all complain that it takes them as long as 5 minutes to read one email because entourage is so slow, and sits there with the spinning beach ball.

In general build it just like you built outlook, to work and not cause problems.

An easy way to create an updated company address list and send it out to all the users would be great. I know there are public folders on the exchange server but they seem buried.

Better integration w/ Outlook which has to be run on our Windows machines.

Better ability to delegate access to another person.

Calenders with a view that they are to be shared and crossed w/ others to immeadiately find conflicts in schedules (for instance when scheduling meetings).

Continual problems seem to exist w/ the sync feature which eats up performance and disables Entourage all together at times.

Those would be my suggestions, all with an eye as to how it’s used in a business environ. Syncing PDAs to Exchange has worked very well. Calender is useful but w/ the above suggestions it’d benefit groups (which is what Office is supposed to be about, I think). Besides that, not too many complaints, I too would switch to .Mail if they took this business environment approach to their app (or as a separate package acknowledging a growing business presence….LISTENING APPLE?).

1) Exports:
a) Cannot export address selected records; must export all records.
b) Cannot export address category information.
c) Cannot export business/home preference

2) Cannot find and replace; only allow finds;

3) No search or column ability for Instant Message fields; they do no show up in an list of search fields or column options (they do show up in an export)

4) Notes & Tasks:
a)Notes and Tasks should have preview panes like Messages and Addresses; inconsistent interface design
b)) Why can’t Notes or Tasks be put in folders like e-mail messages?

5) Project is very limited when it comes to smart filtering.

6) Instant Messaging should support other clients (AIM, etc.)

7) Filtering: In the Mail window, filtering only allows you to filter by from, to, subject, project which doesn’t work terribly well. The “from” filter doesn’t get domain names in e-mail addresses, which makes it hard to search everyone with the same domain.
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8) Searching: incredibly slow. Work needs to be done on the search engine.

Drag and Drop linking would be a HUGE time saver.

Also the “link to existing” feature takes too much time to find the item i want to link to – a search field would be enormously helpful there.