Good for you, Miriam. Some day I will get up the courage to scrap
this Jerry rigged system that a fellow pieced together for me...at
considerable cost, and pay for an entirely new setup.
But for now, even though it gets harder and harder, I can do with it
what I want to do.
Carl Jarvis
On 3/4/17, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Here I am with my new email program, one which I've actually paid for and
which is up-to-date. There is a long tail of woe, to which I won't subject
you. But this is my first attempt at using Outlook 2016. The person who
helped me put this all together is Londa, a blind technology teacher who
lives in Harrisburg, PA, and whom I got to know a few years ago when she
offered help with my messed up Humanware Companion Sofrware. Because of her
remote help, I have Jaws 18 and she even got Magic 13 to work for me,
although she is congenitally totally blind, and customized it so that I
have
light letters on a dark background in both Word and Outlook. We'll see how
well I do with it because Magic tends to disappear sometimes and I don't
know how to get it to turn back on. As for Outlook, it turned out that
Outlook 2010, which was given to me for free and which I was quite pleased
with, aside from the fact that it doesn't read html emails nicely, was,
apparently pirated, and was threatening to disappear as of today. We tried
the new Outlook Express which is free, but Londa felt it wasn't working
well
with Jaws and she couldn't import my contacts to it. Thunderbird is also
free, but she doesn't know it at all and again, it would have been
difficult
to import all those contacts. And besides, Word 2003, was becoming
corrupted. I suppose I'll get accustomed to all of this and be able to do
most of what I need to do . Unfortunately, one can't just buy Office 365
outright. You have to renew it each year for just under $70. No wonder Bill
Gates is so rich!
Miriam
