Hello there; I would like to make one change in the steps regarding editing a contact within windows live 2011.
I indicated in my message, That these steps assume you have the virtual ribbon set to off, This is not true, These steps will work regardless, 1, open WLM, 2, now press ctrl#3=contacts, 3, navigate to the contact which you wish to edit, 4, now press, Applications key and up arrow and enter on edit contact, 5 now press alt+t, You will hear the contacts first name, now you can tab through the various fields, Once you've completed your editing, Tab save press enter. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 4:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Editing a Contact in Windows Live Mail 2011 Hello there; If you would like to edit a contact in windows live mail, First with the virtual ribbon set to off, Do the following; 1, open WLM, 2, now press ctrl#3=contacts, 3, navigate to the contact which you wish to edit, 4, now press, Applications key and up arrow and enter on edit contact, 5 now press alt+t, You will hear the contacts first name, now you can tab through the various fields, Once you've completed your editing, Tab save press enter. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Margaret Thomas Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 2:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Editing a Contact in Windows Live Mail 2011 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: ******************************************************* 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 corr ect, 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 For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
