Fernando and Wayne, Excellent instruction, as always, Fernando. I have an alternative that may just be simpler for Wayne's purposes. Wayne, you're trying to search either by subject or sender. Here's what I do. I'm using Outlook 2010, but I think it will work in 2007 as well.
As Fernando says, your best bet is to identify the folder where the messages you want are likely stored. So, your first step is to place focus at a message in that folder's message list. Do not open that message. The second step is to press control-shift-f. Now, for a subject search, with your having pressed control-shift-f, focus will be placed in the edit field for subject. Type your search term and press enter. Wait for JAWS to verbalize "Find now." Press F6 to land in the list of results. For a "From" search, after pressing control-shift-f, tab three times to the "From" edit field. Enter your search criteria, press enter, wait for "find now," and press F6 for the results list, I find In addition to these two search functions, I also use the "To" edit field, which I get to with five presses of the tab key after pressing control-shift-f. You can restrict your search results further by entering search criteria into more than one field at one time, such as in the subject and "from" fields. One last point. When I'm not sure the subject line will cover my subject search, I look for search strings within message fields as follows: Control-shift-f Tab once Down-arrow once Shift-tab once Enter the search string in this edit field and press enter, etc. -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Fernando Gregoire Sent: Friday, July 14, 2017 8:33 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Searching in Outlook Hi Wayne, Searching for lonely words is not a good idea when you're searching on all folders/mailboxes or in a folder where you have many messages. To use search accurately, after you tab to the Search Box or press CTRL+E to quickly focus it, use the Search tab on the ribbon (that tab is context-sensitive, which means it only appears when doing a specific task, in this case searching; you'll recognize the tab because JAWS also reads the group box surrounding it) to refine search by specifying information like sender, subject, dates, wetter or not the messages to search have attachments and more, as well as if you want to search only in the current folder, all folders, all mailboxes or all Outlook items. This last scope option includes both e-mail messages and other Outlook items like task, notes, contacts, calendar appointments, meeting requests and other thinks I don't remember. Also, be aware that options for refining the search change depending on the view (Mail, Calendar, Contacts and so on) you are using. As a suggestion purely subjective, I would recommend you to open search options and deactivate automatic displaying when typing and limiting of shown results. With the first change, it'll be easier to enter all the criteria you want in slow computers, starting the search when pressing ENTER instead; with the second, you'll be able to navigate through the results, when there are too many, as in any mail folder. Hope it helps! -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of wayne smith Sent: Friday, July 14, 2017 8:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [JAWS-Users] Searching in Outlook Hello all- I am using Outlook 2007 and all of my emails are sent there and it is great for quickly doing many functions. One problem is when I want to do a search for emails from a particular source or about a particular topic. I tab to the search field and type in what I am looking for. Once in a while a list will magically appear and I can simply arrow down through that list and select one if I want it. Most of the time, however, nothing comes up or I tab to where it tells me: A large number of messages have been found click this button if you want all of them or limit your results. If I do that nothing that I can find comes up. Any help in doing searches would be appreciated. Wayne For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ --- El software de antivirus Avast ha analizado este correo electrónico en busca de virus. https://www.avast.com/antivirus For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
