I realized I put off getting my inbox to empty a lot of times because I hated dragging messages to folders. It sounds like a small thing but I get A LOT of email, as in 100+ emails a day. All that dragging added up to a huge annoyance.

The solution...a simple applescript with an assigned shortcut key. For each of my folders: todo, toread, archive, etc, I have a script with a shortcut. Now all I have to do is with the message/s selected, hit the shortcut and boom -- instantly filed.

Here's the applescript (thanks to google's entourage groups from providing me the script). To use edit to your own settings and put into your HD/users/yourusername/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Entourage Script Menu Items. Save file as: nameOfFile \cA.scpt. The "\cA" part of the file name sets the shortcut to ctrl+A, you can make it whatever you want though.

NonExchange Account version:

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
	set destFolder to folder "name of folder" 
	set currMsgs to (current messages)
	move currMsgs to destFolder
end tell

Exchange version:

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
	set destFolder to folder "name of folder" of Exchange account "name of Exchange account"
	set currMsgs to (current messages)
	move currMsgs to destFolder
end tell

Hope this is useful to someone else!

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sharon