[access-uk] Re: OUTLOOK 2002 V 10
- From: "Carol Pearson" <carol.pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 08:58:47 -0000
Peter,
Like you - I've done it all too, more or less anyway, and now am glad I
have moved to Outlook. I don't use Journal though.
I agree Outlook isn't quite so subsinct when it comes to reading, as was
Outlook Express, but most of the time I can press DEL on the item, once
I'd stopped speech with Ctrl and it will start reading the next item.
This is with Brian Hartgen's scripts, by the way, and Version 5.1 of
JAWS at present.
My coolest feature that you didn't mention was the Goto: In the
calendar you can go to things like Tuesday, three weeks, today, an
actual date written with slashes, and other things I've tried out which
it accepts. I couldn't believe, when I first played with it, how many
different things it would accept and take you to that date.
I usually Goto a date before putting in the appointment, because I find
it less fiddley that way, then just Goto today when I'm done.
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Carol
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Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 8:31 AM
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Subject: [access-uk] Re: OUTLOOK 2002 V 10
Hi Carol,
I could read on this thread for ages. I'm really into Outlook
these days and can't get enough of it. I was checking into my contacts
and noticed that I don't really have to have a contact that has an email
address. This contact could simply be a mailing address. You can enter
all his or her details, all their phone numbers, birthday details etc,
and quickly find any contact with a quick control shift letter e. If you
have his or her address in full, Outlook has an option that states,
create a new letter to this contact? I haven't tried it, but I imagine
that Outlook will open MS Word and have my contacts name and address in
the appropriate area of a business letter. Cool or what. To anyone who
is still using Outlook Express, I used to jump from Outlook Express to
Outlook and back, due to the fact that the Jaws scripts were never any
good for Outlook 97 or using Jaws 3.7. But this new Jaws, version 6, is
working just great with Outlook. I particularly like the Calendar. You
can set up dates and appointments and have an alert sound from one
minute or even two weeks before the appointment. Just great. Jaws 6
works great in
the Calendar, so its easy to set them up. Another thing I
like is the note options. You know when you're working away or reading
emails and the phone rings and someone wants you to take down a phone
number? In the past I had to open Notepad, type in the details and then
save it as a document. I don't have to do that any more with Outlook's
notes and Jaws 6. I simply move to the Notes folder and hit Control plus
the letter N. Immediately a little notepad window opens for me to type
in the details. When that's done and I hang up the phone, I simply alt
F4 on the wee window and the details are saved! Brilliant. Also you can,
using MS Word to edit emails, incorporate MS word as the, er, client
window, if you will. This means that you write your emails in a document
window from MS Word. I think this gives me great control over what the
document looks like when I send in HTML, plus this method uses the auto
correct spelling options of MS Word, so a word that is not spelt
correctly is noticeable if you use a screen reader, not to mention that
words like Saturday and January are automatically capatilised. Using the
spell checker brings up MS Word's very own spell checker, so again it's
a user window that you are familiar with. It can also check your grammar
as well as your spelling. Turn the grammer check off though as it is a
bit of a pain. Outlook also has a Tasks option which I haven't gotten
into yet, as well as a journal option which I haven't gotten into
either. There is one, and only one drawback with Outlook though. That
is, when opening each email, you have to actually use the say all key to
get Jaws to read it. This is a wee bit of a pain at first, but you do
get used to it and, after a while, you can create a hot key for faster
reading. Also hypertext links don't automatically activate on hitting
enter on them, but the fix is easy and really not worth the mention.
There are so many other great options of Outlook that you'd have to see
for yourself. Your favourites are right there on board to launch your
favourite website. If you have Outlook on your computer, why not set it
up and give it a try. You'll never miss another birthday. The security
features in Outlook are supposed to be much better, too. Getting into
Outlook is only a little challenging with only a slight learning curve,
Peter
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