Need help making Microsoft Oulook 2011 speak sender & subject of msgs

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#1

I’m trying to get my Outlook 2011 to speak the sender and subject of new messages. I found and modified a script that works for Entourage, but I get an error at one point. Here’s the line:

set mysender to the display name of sender of theMsg as string

and the error:

“Can’t make «class dspn» of «class sndr» of item 1 of {«class inm » id 40709 of application "Microsoft Outlook"} into type string.”

When I add this line:

get the sender of theMsg

it returns:

{name:“John Doe”, address:"john@doe.com"}

(I substituted John Doe for the actual name and address)
How do I get Applescript to extract the sender’s name so it can speak it? Thanks.

Kevin

#2

Hi,

it seems that the sender record has no display name key,
so try


set mysender to (get name of sender of theMsg)
#3

I substituted your line, and now it get the error, “Microsoft Outlook got an error: Can’t make name of sender of incoming message id 40709 into type specifier.”

Kevin

#4

hi

I don’t have outlook, so I cant test,

 set _Subject to get the subject of theMessage
  
  set _Sender to sender of theMessage
  set _SenderName to name of _Sender
#5

Thanks! That worked! I really appreciate all the help and suggestions.

Kevin