Graham,

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!  That did the trick!

Being able to edit contacts brings up a couple of follow-up questions.  I think 
I heard somewhere that using nicknames, especially where there were multiple 
contacts with the same first name was a good idea in WLM 2011.  I did a couple 
in the contact information and the nickname seems to be listed before the first 
name.  I'm not used to hearing it this way and was wondering if there is a way 
of hearing them after the first and last names for the contact?  It isn't a big 
thing and I can learn to live with if it's the way WLM2011 works.  It's minor 
compared to the other problems I have at this point.

Of much greater importance is that when my tech got my Outlook Express address 
book into WLM2011, it is all scrambled up and some items don't have names and 
only have e-mail addresses, or are missing last names, have nicknames and 
addresses, but no names and other problems that will need fixing.  I've heard 
that this is a bug in WLM 2011.  I've got complicated instructions that are 
supposed to at least semi-automatically unscramble the contact list, but there 
are less than 60 names and some of them are correct, so I thought I'd try 
correcting it manually.  The way the contact list came out I don't recognize 
some of the items since they only have e-mail addresses.  Is there some fairly 
easy way of getting my Outlook Express address book into a text or .doc/.docx 
document or something so I'll have the names, e-mail addresses, and nicknames 
(if any) for a contact in one line and can easily figure out who is who and get 
it on the windows 7 computer?

Huge thanks,

Margaret

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Graham Smith" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 9:30 AM
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Editing a Contact in Windows Live Mail 2011


When you have pressed the application key on the desired contact tab to the 
contact tab and press enter, you may land in the name field and be able to 
alter here.  I think you may not be pressing enter on the tab and that is 
all.

regardes
graham


-----Original Message----- 
From: Margaret Thomas
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 9:12
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Blind-Computing] Editing a Contact in Windows Live Mail 2011

Good Morning,

I didn't have any problem editing the contact information in the address 
book in Outlook Express, but trying to do it in Windows Live Mail 2011 on my 
64 bit Windows 7 Home Premium machine using JAWS 12 has me wanting to bang 
my head on the desk.  I'm hoping some kind soul might be able to provide 
some instructions.

I've been pressing Control-3 from the message list view and arrowing down to 
the contact I want to edit.  I've tried using the edit contact in the 
context menu that comes up after pressing the Windows application key and 
edit contact in the ribbons.  The other day I managed to get to where I 
could edit the contact's name, but, for the life of me, couldn't find a way 
of editing the e-mail address.  I couldn't even edit the name this morning. 
I've spent over four hours trying and have thrown in the towel.  There's 
probably something very simple that I'm just missing and will kick myself 
all around the block when I learn the secret.

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

Margaret

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