Entourage Issues

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Kerry <kdawson.RemoveThis@fastmail.net> wrote:

> On Dec 14, 9:23 pm, Jolly Roger <jollyro....RemoveThis@pobox.com> wrote:
> > In article <59b65fe0....RemoveThis@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw>, Gaston <> wrote:
> > > I would also agree with one of the first posts saying it is a purpose from
> > > Microsoft to have developed a "poorer" version of Office for Mac than the
> > > original one for Windows.
> >
> > > who wants to lose customers?
> >
> > Microsoft, apparently.
>
> Yes unfortunate but true. However, I wonder if they are losing
> customers if they suddenly revert to Outlook. They've just made more
> money - you've bought Office for the Mac, now you need XP or.. And you
> get at least a version of Outlook. I'm not a conspiracy theorist
> but.... I honestly find this very unfortunate for the Mac. I really
> hate being forced back to Windows and went to the Mac as Windows drove
> me nuts. But, this whole situation with the problems in Entourage is
> almost leaving little choice.

That's what the free virtualization product, VirtualBox, and the
commercial virtualization products, vmWare Fusion, and Parallels
Desktop, are for. ; )

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Some Related Entourage Questions:

1. Can e-mails sent by a BlackBerry via my Gmail account be made to automatically appear in my Entourage '08 sent folder?

2. If not, does Outlook '07 have this ability (i.e., to automatically upload BlackBerry-sent Gmail e-mails into the Outlook sent folder)?

3. When Entourage '08 e-mails are printed, the print size is enlarged unnaturally and looks bad, a departure from the WYSIWYG approach of Outlook '07 and a waste of paper, etc. Can this be corrected with a setting change?

Thank you, Matt

Matt,

I will defer to others on your first you questions.

Re printing too large, it has bothered me too though with so many other gross deficiencies in Outlook '08 it seems minor by comparison and at least fixable.

To fix go to File > Print > Page Set Up > Scale. The default value is 100% which should logically deliver both header and body print size that looks 'normal' in print. It doesn't!

It would seem that the header and body text are differently constructed typefaces and scale differently and also that the value '100%' actually gives you around a 35% magnification of body text and the correct default value should be in the 65-70% range. (I personally prefer the text to print a point larger on paper.)

So my experience: I use Calibri 11 point for my emails. The header seems (fixed at) Calibri 10.
Printing at 'default' scale (100%) my header now looks around 12 point and the body text around 15 point - which is excessive (and around now three points above the header font size).

If I now set scale at 70%, my header prints at around 10 point, the body at around 12 point - with the header looking a bit too small on paper but the body text about right, to my eye. (seems now a two point spread versus one on my screen).

If you set at ~67% you are close to the original 10 point of the header, 11 point for the body - at least when viewed on a screen with a pixel pitch of approx. 0.22mm (a 13.1" screened MBA). I myself prefer using 70%.

Of course Apple would have thought this through and we wouldn't have to, but this is Microsoft! Every day with their software is an adventure!!

PS: there may be some deeper insight possible here relating to how fonts, screens and printers interact but it is beyond my skill set!

Hopefully this anyhow will resolve your issue.

"MattShannon@officeformac.com" wrote:

> Some Related Entourage Questions:

Adding onto a thread makes for confusion. This is your first question and
there are 20+ messages and different authors above you. If someone is
searching for help how can they make any sense of this mess?

Please start your own thread. If you use a newsreader rather than the
Mactopia interface to this newsgroup you can download old messages and
search for answers. If you are not familiar with a newsreader, Entourage's
basic newsreader already has the Microsoft News server included. All you do
is subscribe to the newsgroups you want. See this page for help:

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/support_options/subnews.html>

I've asked that this thread be locked to avoid any further confusion.

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