Cliff,
Some of this information is already in your Windows Help area. Just open
Outlook Express and then press F1 to access a whole series of "books" on
the subject. You'll need time and a bit of patience. But Microsoft assumes
that some of its readers are, like you, beginners and therefore it creates
textual support from the very start, right up to really advanced processes.
Of the 2 programs you have mentioned, Outlook Express is, in my opinion,
much easier to work with than Outlook itself. The entire concept of Outlook
Express was to provide a quick way to accomplish some of the tasks you are
interested in executing.
The best way to save messages is to create a folder in which they can be
kept. If you generate your own folder, those messages will remain in it
until you decide to remove them. That is assuming of course, that you don't
have some kind of system failure.
Outlook Express folders are stored in what Microsoft calls "trees" which
are, essentially, lists which are connected to other lists. To create a
simple folder, try this as an expedient way to get where you have to be.
There's a Microsoft script called Control Y which brings you to a list of
folders. If you have your PC cursor active, you can move upward until you
reach the main tree. Then you can tab over to where the system indicates
"New Folder" and press Enter there. That process is very similar to
creating folders anywhere in a Windows environment.
You can also press Alt F and you will be presented with a "Folders" option.
I believe that one of those choices is "create new" and again, you can name
a folder anything you want.
This is the most basic way to use Outlook Express. There isn't time or
enough patience on the part of this list to go into detailed instructions
but David Ferrin has some really helpful tutorials on the Blind Computing
and Jaws Users web sites.
You'll find links to both of those sites at the bottom of any message you
read. After you have read a message, press Alt E and then arrow down to
"Move To Folder" or press the letter M.
You can then specify exactly which folder you'd like the message to be saved
in. If you have created a new folder, one with an appropriate title such as
"Saved From E-mail" then you can move the message to that folder by
indicating it when the list comes up. Just find the correct title and press
Enter. The message will vanish from your In Box and be "moved" to that
folder
.
A little caviat here. Do not move a message to some folders in Outlook
Express which have already been created. They are temporary and if the
settings are configured in certain ways, the Deleted Items folder, for
example, will be emptied every time you leave Outlook Express. That's a
good thing though, since you wouldn't believe how quickly those messages
build up.
That should get you started. Take your time. Read the instructions
provided but do so in relatively small doses. There is nothing more boring
than reading a Microsoft instruction manual. Unless of course, it's one of
my long posts to this list. LOL!
Good luck.
John Justice
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