Thanks Steve. I'm not using Outlook 2003 myself, and I had posted this query for a client. I worked with her this morning, and now have her successfully using the View menu Arrange By submenu to sort her emails as desired. She's not a terribly adept computer user, but I walked her through this a couple times and made sure she could do it on her own at least three times.
Thanks, -Paul > -----Original Message----- > > Hi Paul, > > The following might be more detail than you want, but I wrote some notes > on this topic in 2006 when I worked for RNIB. They assume JAWS 6 or 8. > > 1. Sorting by the Arrange By submenu of the View menu > > The items in the Arrange By submenu change according to the type of folder > you are in, and the view you have for that folder. > > For Mail folders using the default view, the first thirteen items in the > Arrange By submenu offer different criteria by which the current folder can > be sorted. For Calendar, Contact and Notes folders using the default view, > there are no options in the Arrange By submenu for sorting items. > > Most of the criteria for Mail and Tasks folders are self-explanatory, but a > few points are worth making: > * Not all the criteria necessarily refer to fields which are on screen. > * The Conversation and Subject options both arrange messages according to > their Subject, but Conversation groups the messages and only shows the > latest message. > * The Folder option is only available in search folders, where items from > more than one folder may appear. > * The Email account is not very useful within RNIB, because each member of > staff has only one email account. > * You can use the Arrange By submenu to check how the folder is currently > sorted; the relevant heading will be reported as "checked". > > The benefit of this method of sorting messages is its ease. A downside is > that you can only choose from one of the predefined options - you cannot > choose, for instance, to have the messages listed with the latest message at > the bottom of the list, only at the top. > > 2. Sorting by column headings with the JAWS cursor > > The second way to sort messages makes use of the field headings that > appear above the list of messages. Some of the field headings are text and > some are icons. A mouse user can click on one of these headings to sort the > messages by that field, and click a second time on the heading to reverse > the sort order. A keyboard user can use the JAWS cursor to accomplish the > same effect, but only on field headings that are text, which in the Inbox > means the From, Subject and Received field headings. > > The steps required for this are: move to the first message in the list, which > will be directly underneath the column headings. Then route the JAWS > cursor to the PC cursor and move up a line, find the heading you want to sort > by and click it. The keystrokes for this are as follows: > Home - to move to the first message in the list. > UpArrow to move up a line - if the folder is grouped, there is an extra line > above the first message. If the folder isn't grouped, this keystroke does > nothing. > Insert + NumPad Minus - to route the JAWS to the PC cursor. > UpArrow to move up a line; this should put the JAWS cursor on the column > headings. > Insert + RightArrow and Insert + LeftArrow to check which heading you are > on and to move to the one you want to sort the folder by. > NumPad slash - perform a left mouse click with the JAWS cursor on the > column heading with focus. > NumPad Plus - to switch back to the PC cursor. > > You should now find that the messages are listed according to the column > heading you clicked on. > > The JAWS Find feature can be used to search for field headings that consist > of text, i.e. the From, Subject and Received fields. Here are the keystrokes > needed: > Control + Insert + F - starts the JAWS Find dialogue. > Type in the text of the field heading you are interested in. > Tab to the Direction radio button. > DownArrow to change it to "reverse". > Enter - to start the search. The JAWS cursor will find the field header and > take focus. > NumPad slash - performs a left mouse click on the field header. > NumPad Plus - to switch back to the PC cursor. > > Accessing the field headers that are icons is not so easy. Starting with the > JAWS cursor on the From field header, press LeftArrow repeatedly to move > to the attachment field, the message type field and the importance field. It > is still possible to do a left mouse click to sort by these fields, but JAWS > gives no feedback on any of the headers. As far as I know, it is not possible > to alter these field headers to anything other than an icon. > > Hope that helps, > Steve > --- > Steve Griffiths > Senior Assistive Technology Assistant > Working from home in Lancaster > E: [email protected] > T: 0746 871 1921 _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com
