Hello Mike,
I had started the method I found in the old tip I mentioned in my post before I
saw yours and the old tip didn't work for me. I have OE 6 and I think that one
could have been for an older Outlook Express or else I messed up. The wording
I heard in an early step was different and then, when I had attached the file
and tried to send it, I got an error message to the effect that the e-mail was
too large for the server to accept. There were less than 60 entries in the
address book, so I have no idea what happened.
Happily, your instructions worked like a charm and I was able to make some good
progress in straightening out the WLM 2011 contacts.
I need to spend more time working with the keywords to make sure they work the
same as they did in OE, but it's basically one big problem solved and I royally
thank you and the other list members helping to navigate these new waters.
Margaret
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike & Barbara" <mb69ma...@charter.net>
To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 3:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Editing a Contact in Windows Live Mail 2011
Hi Margaret,
What I do to save my Outlook Express address book as a, .TXT file, for my
own purposes, & not for importing or exporting is., as follows.
1. Open your Outlook Express address book.
2. Tab 1 time to get into the list of entries.
3. Press, control + A, to select all.
4. Open Notepad / a new Text file, & paste the contents from the clipboard
into the text file now, name it & save it.
Doing it this way for personal use is simple & it only copies the fields
that have information in them. You can navigate the text file with your
arrow keys or, use the Jaws find feature to find a specific entry. Hope
this helped. Take care.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: Margaret Thomas
To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 11:37 AM
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 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" <g.smith...@rogers.com>
To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com>
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: blind-computing@jaws-users.com
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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