Chris,,
Advanced Find in Outlook Express is one of my favorite commands
and lets me find all sorts of posts I saved or find things from
listserves quickly.
From the message list view in OE 6, press Control-Shif-F. JAWS
announces Find Message Dialogue and says look in and the name of the
folder you are in. Some of the more recent versions of JAWS say some
extraneous things here like adding reading only edit that you can get
it not to say. If you want to search in an OE folder other than the
one you are in, press alt b and you will get the folder list. To
search in the folder you are in, keep tabbing to find some of the
things you can search for. Tabbing 3 times is the place where you can
type in messages from a particular person, part of an e-mail address,
etc. Tab again and you get to where you can look for messages to
people lists, etc. Another tab brings you to subject if you want to
search for any part of what's in the subject field.
One more tab is for message if you remember anything in the message
body. The next 2 tabs get you to where you can search for messages
within a date range, say if you remember the message you're looking
for was written between april 1 and June 30 of this year. There's a
check box to check if you want to search for attachments. You can
search for any combinations of these items and if you search for
things in local folders, you can really increase the capability.
There are short cut keys too . If you want to search within the
folder you started the search with,, alt-r is the one to land you in
the from section. Alt-t for To;; Alt-u for subject; Alt-a for message
and alt-h for attachment.
Hit enter when you've typed in all the items you want to search for
and you get a message list view with the results.
Hope that helps and you find Advanced Find as useful as I do.
Margaret
"Chris Hallsworth" wrote:
I don't understand this advanced find feature. I typed "a" into the
search
field, for the fun of it, but there was no "find next button" or
similar.
What have I done wrong? Thanks!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Margaret Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 4:18 PM
Subject: [JAWS-Users] Fixing Mislabeled Graphic Re: AMessage Status in
OEAdvanced Find J 7.1
> Hi all,,
>
> In addition to not saying "Unread," JAWS 7.1 was also not saying
> "Attachment" in the resulting message list view after doing an
> Advanced Find
> (Control-Shift-F) in OE 6 so I decided to try to manually label
> graphics to see if it solved the problem.
>
> I got JFW to say checked and unchecked after Advanced Find which
> it wasn't doing and the state of the items is correct. I got it to
> speak "Attachment" when there was one after doing a Control-Shift-F.
> However, I pressed my luck and thought I had figured out that
> graphic
> 22 was supposed to be Unread and labeled it"Unread." A test
> determined that I blew that one and it did not make JAWS say
> "Unread"
> in the resulting message list view. JAWS was saying "Unread" when I
> routed JAWS to PC in the resulting message list view and I tried
> getting it to say "graphic 22" again and I was successful. I
> haven't
> been able to figure out what graphic 22 is and sighted assistance is
> not available.
>
> JAWS is correctly speaking the number of unread items when I do
> an
> Insert-pg down after Control-shift-F, gut it worked properly in JFW
> 7
> and previous versions of JAWS as did the speaking of "Attachment."
>
> I remember that, for some reason, Advanced Find is somehow
> considered
> to be part of XP Home and is not really part of OE or at least that
> was the way it was with Win 98. At any rate I seem to be having to
> configure things like muting the escape key again after hitting
> Control-Shift-F after I've already done them in OE.
>
> I did back up the more than one thousand files in shared files
> and
> was thinking that I could replace whatever file has the labeled
> graphics in Advanced Find with the original, but I don't know if
> which
> one it is or if it would even work.
>
> I'm running XP Home and IE 6.
>
> Any help in not having to uninstall and re-install 7.1 would be
> appreciated. I've lost count of the number of times I've already
> done
> it.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Margaret
>
> Previously, I wrote:
>
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> I'm trying to get JAWS 7.1 to my liking and have run into some of
> the same problems I had with Advanced Find in Outlook Express 6
> (Control-Shift-F) as I had when I originally installed it.
>
> One is that the number of unread messages resulting from the
> search is
> correctly announced with Insert-pg down, but JAWS does not announce
> "Unread" in the message list view. This worked properly in 7.0
> here.
> I remember that, for some reason, Advanced Find is somehow
> considered
> to be part of XP Home and is not really part of OE or at least that
> was the way it was with Win 98. At any rate I seem to be having to
> configure things like muting the escape key again after hitting
> Control-Shift-F after I've already done them in OE.
>
> The OS is XP Home with SP 2.
>
> Any help in getting "Unread" in the message list view after doing
> the Advanced Find command would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Margaret
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