Hi: Though I don't use Outlook Express, I've found that sometimes when strange things like that happen in either Outlook or Thunderbird, simply closing the program out and reloading it can help too.
k athy wrote: > thank you so much for the information. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Flor Lynch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 5:45 PM > Subject: [JAWS-Users] deleting draft messages in outlook Express > > > >> You delete these messages the same as you delete from other folders in >> outlook Express. Hit the delete key on a message, and it should be gone >> into the Deleted items folder. If this is not happening, the folder could >> be corrupted: this problem could be cured by the deletion (outside of >> Outlook Express) of the Draft Items.dbx folder whence a new folder of that >> name is created the next time Outlook Express is re-opened. that is, >> nonetheless, the last resort. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> >> From: "kathy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 10:26 PM >> Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Fixing Mislabeled Graphic Re: >> AMessageStatusinOEAdvanced Find J 7.1 >> >> >> does anyone know how to delit draft messages in outlook express. >> >> >> i've tried but without success. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> >>> From: "Chris Hallsworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 4:16 PM >> Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Fixing Mislabeled Graphic Re: >> AMessageStatusinOEAdvanced Find J 7.1 >> >> >> >>> Hi Margaret, thanks for your help. I will give it a shot now and let you >>> know how I get on with it. It's amazing that Outlook Express is full of >>> shortcut keys; no where can I see controls that are not assigned to a >>> shortcut key. Microsoft really gave accessibility a serious thought >>> obviously when developing Outlook Express. Anyway thanks again. >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Margaret Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> To: <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 7:32 PM >>> Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Fixing Mislabeled Graphic Re: AMessage >>> StatusinOEAdvanced Find J 7.1 >>> >>> >>> >>>> 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 >>>>> >>>> Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: >>>> http://www.jaws-users.com >>>> Address for the list archives: >>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] >>>> To post to this group, send email to >>>> [email protected] >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject >>>> or body of a blank message to: >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> Use the following form in order to contact the management team >>>> http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php >>>> If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the >>>> following address: >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> >>>> >>> Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: >>> http://www.jaws-users.com >>> Address for the list archives: >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] >>> To post to this group, send email to >>> [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject >>> or body of a blank message to: >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Use the following form in order to contact the management team >>> http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php >>> If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the >>> following address: >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> >>> -- >>> No virus found in this incoming message. >>> Checked by AVG Free Edition. >>> Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.11.4/936 - Release Date: 8/4/2007 >>> 2:42 PM >>> >>> >>> >> Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: >> http://www.jaws-users.com >> Address for the list archives: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] >> To post to this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject >> or >> body of a blank message to: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Use the following form in order to contact the management team >> http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php >> If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the >> following address: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: >> http://www.jaws-users.com >> Address for the list archives: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] >> To post to this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject >> or body of a blank message to: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Use the following form in order to contact the management team >> http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php >> If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the >> following address: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> -- >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG Free Edition. >> Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.11.8/940 - Release Date: 8/6/2007 >> 4:53 PM >> >> > > > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: > http://www.jaws-users.com > Address for the list archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or > body of a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Use the following form in order to contact the management team > http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php > If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the > following address: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
