RE: Using Outlook to Schedule Appointments

  • From: "Chip Orange" <Corange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 09:16:40 -0400

In addition to a toolbar button, I think it's a menu choice somewhere
(check under the actions menu or under the file | new menu).

Hth,

Chip

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> [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lorana
> Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 8:35 PM
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Using Outlook to Schedule Appointments
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> Hey, I just wanted to say thinks.
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> I ended  up using the Autopick feature, and it worked=20
> beautifully.  I just had to find it with JAWS, and JAWS isn't=20
> very friendly on that point.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chip Orange" <Corange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 7:11 AM
> Subject: RE: Using Outlook to Schedule Appointments
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> > Jaws isn't automatically talkative on this point, but, once=20
> you specify
> > the people and the appointment date/time, there's a line on=20
> the top of
> > the screen, just under the menu, which tells you if anyone=20
> has a known
> > conflict; you can reach this line with the jaws cursor.; if=20
> there are no
> > conflicts it just tells you that invitations have not yet been sent
> >
> > I don't know all the capabilities of jaws even now, but=20
> under windows
> > bridge you could have told it to automatically watch this=20
> line and speak
> > it if it changed; maybe jaws has the same feature?  We'll=20
> see if anyone
> > knows about that.
> >
> > There's another way of going about it; you can tell outlook who you
> > want, and ask it to pick a meeting time when everyone is=20
> available and
> > it will present you with the first meeting time it finds. =20
> You can then
> > keep going through the next and the next and so on until=20
> you arrive at
> > one you like.  It takes into consideration the specified=20
> work schedule
> > for each person, so it's not going to schedule a meeting on=20
> a weekend or
> > at midnight or anything, so you can always try the=20
> :"schedule a meeting"
> > function  to see if that's what you need.
> >
> > Hth,
> >
> > Chip
> >
> > =3D20
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> > > -----Original Message-----
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> > > [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lorana
> > > Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 1:31 AM
> > > To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: Using Outlook to Schedule Appointments
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> > > Are there any good tips for doing this?  I'm supposed to be=3D20
> > > able to see the  availability of the people I'm setting up=3D20
> > > the  appointment for, but I'm not sure how to do any of this.=3D20
> > >  JAWS didn't seem too talkative in there, and what it was=3D20
> > > saying didn't make a lot of sense.
> > > Help?
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> > > Lora
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