[Blind-Computing] Editing a Contact in Windows Live Mail 2011

2011-10-20 Thread Margaret Thomas
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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Re: [Blind-Computing] Editing a Contact in Windows Live Mail 2011

2011-10-20 Thread Graham Smith
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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Re: [Blind-Computing] Editing a Contact in Windows Live Mail 2011

2011-10-20 Thread Margaret Thomas
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" 
To: 
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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Re: [Blind-Computing] Editing a Contact in Windows Live Mail 2011

2011-10-20 Thread Margaret Thomas
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" 
To: 
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 

Re: [Blind-Computing] Editing a Contact in Windows Live Mail 2011

2011-10-20 Thread Mike & Barbara
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" 
  To: 
  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-Comp

Re: [Blind-Computing] Editing a Contact in Windows Live Mail 2011

2011-10-20 Thread David
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: blind-computing-boun...@jaws-users.com
[mailto:blind-computing-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Margaret Thomas
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 2:37 PM
To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com
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" 
To: 
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 W

Re: [Blind-Computing] Editing a Contact in Windows Live Mail 2011

2011-10-20 Thread David
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: blind-computing-boun...@jaws-users.com
[mailto:blind-computing-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of David
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 4:08 PM
To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com
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: blind-computing-boun...@jaws-users.com
[mailto:blind-computing-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Margaret Thomas
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 2:37 PM
To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com
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 

Re: [Blind-Computing] Editing a Contact in Windows Live Mail 2011

2011-10-20 Thread Bill Gallik
Windows Live Mail seems to be a very different animal.  I've encountered 
what I thought is exactly what you're running into except that I started 
using "Select All" in any given field, cutting it out, then saving (pasting) 
the contents of the save to a notepad session.  Then, going into Notepad and 
pasting that data to that application, I was able to edit the particular 
field at will -- but you need to leave your cursor in the Windows Live Mail 
contact edit at the location where you got the editted info in the first 
place.  Then, from Notepad, make desired changes, Select the new value and 
cut it from the Notepad session and returning to Windows Live Mail to paste 
the new information in that field.


The other thing you mentioned is you're having difficulty getting focus on 
the correct contact; seems you are there but when you go to select edit 
another contact comes up, right?  Well, just keep bankging on the SPACE Bar, 
and repeatedldy route the JAWS Key to the PC Key and visa versa.  I don't 
know which try works, but it seems to get true focus on the correct contact.


Holland's Person, Bill
- Words that soak into your ears are whispered, not yelled.
- source unknown 



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Re: [Blind-Computing] Editing a Contact in Windows Live Mail 2011

2011-10-21 Thread Margaret Thomas
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" 
To: 
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:



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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