Registered: Mar 2000
Location: Heidelberg, Germany
Posts: 85

I ran into a problem yesterday and wondered if anyone had a fix. I wanted to make a shortcut that had my email signature information in it, i.e. name, phone number, email address, etc. I started adding the information to the description area of the shortcut, but was unable to do more than two lines of text. I would like to have about four or five lines of text. As a workaround, I broke it up into several shortcuts, one for the name, one for the phone numbers, and one for the email address. Does anyone know of a way to work around this limit in the text.

Thanks!

RadarGreg

Registered: Dec 1999
Location: Connecticut USA
Posts: 2682

If you're using the built-in email app, just go into Preferences and create a signature any length you want. As for the shortcut problem, I was able to enter several lines (name, address, etc).

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MarkEagle - Ice is nice!

[This message has been edited by MarkEagle (edited 07-19-2000).]

Registered: Oct 1999
Location: Cincinnati, OH
Posts: 109

This is a blind shot, but perhaps its not limiting the number of lines, but the number of characters?

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Trinition ([email protected])

Registered: Feb 2000
Location: SW Virginia
Posts: 290

My quick test shows that short cuts appear to be limited to 45 characters.

Registered: Dec 1999
Location: Connecticut USA
Posts: 2682

Yup... seems like 45 characters here, too.

The built-in email app does not seem to have this same limitation.

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MarkEagle - Ice is nice!

Registered: Dec 1999
Location:
Posts: 251

There is a hack or something called Pop! that might give you more characters. It is not a shortcut, but gives you a drop list of things to enter.

If you are using Evedit, you can use multi-clipboard and lock the clip items that you don't want to overwrite. You will be limited to only a few of these "shortcuts" since Evedit only supports 10 clip items.

Registered: Mar 2000
Location: Heidelberg, Germany
Posts: 85

Thanks for all the advice, guys. There were some very good suggestions. I was originally trying to set it up so I could send signatures with MultimailPro, but after poking around in MMP, I found it has a signature feature. I guess that's why they give you a nice PDF manual with the program. Thanks again!

RadarGreg