I may have found some instructions that will allow me to have my OE address
book as a text file that I can use to manually unscramble my WLM 2011 contacts
list.
>From a Dummies Daily e-mail from Oct.23, 2001:
"You may be wondering whether you can print a copy of your Outlook
Express Address Book. Not directly. But you can create a plain
old text list of the addresses from your Outlook Express Address
Book, and print that text document (or copy the text document
into a word processing document, fancy up the formatting, and
then print it).
1. Choose File, Export, Address Book.
The Address Book Export Tool dialog box appears.
2. From the list of options, select Text File.
The next dialog appears, asking where you want to save the
exported file.
3. Click the Browse button and find the folder where you
want the file and give it a name.
The next dialog box appears where you can select which
fields you want to export.
4. Put a check mark next to each field you want to appear
in the text file.
At a minimum, you probably want the person's name and e-mail
address to appear. Whatever fields you choose will appear in
the text file separated by commas.
5. Click the Finish button.
The text document awaits you in the folder you created it
in."
If I can do it, I think I'll be able to attach it as a .txt file and send it to
myself since one of my e-mail addresses is usable on both the XP Home and the
Win 7 machine. My external drive may be my friend if I can get it to cooperate
in the project.
Margaret
Earlier, I wrote:
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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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