Flor,
Now, I know your secret, I thought you were a Jaws WIZZARD, LOL!!!!
Jorge
-----Original Message-----
From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Flor Lynch
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 4:36 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Attachment will not read
You can also Thank Google, who is your friend!, for those instructions,
after my own contribution in the first paragraph. Sometimes all one needs
too do is put the question you have to ask in the search edit, and let
google find results. Choose from among the results. (This is trune for
anyone, blind or sighted.)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Trish" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 8:26 PM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Attachment will not read
> Hello Flor,
>
> The second part of your steps here on the General Tab, does not have
> this
> information you listed.
>
> I have not tried the first set of steps.
>
> Since I am now on their board, they are determined to make sure I can
> read
> this information, so what she has done now is, resent me another
> attachment
> and saved it with this extension...
>
> B.docx
>
>
> Now, I am able to read it just fine. When I opened the first
> attachment with
> the .dox, the conversion program popped up message stating it couldn't
> convert it, or it sort of did, but it stated that it had removed some
> elements that I guess it couldn't convert. So all I heard was blank
> blank.
> But if I routed Jaws to jaws cursor, I could pick up a tiny bit of the
> text,
> but not the entire newsletter.
>
> The conversion program did state this dox was the new Office format.
>
> I've not ran across this problem until now from other attachment using
> Office, but guess those were older versions.
>
> Usually it's something scanned or saved as a .TIF, but those my
> brother in
> law can open and read at least.
>
> I do want to thank you for your instructions here and helping me
> problem
> solve this issue.
>
> Trish
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Flor Lynch" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 12:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Attachment will not read
>
>
> I see, from your message headers, that you are using windows Mail.
> Outlook Express opened those file, as does windows Live mail, and
> Windows Mail should open them.
>
> What they are is email (.eml) files, in other words, messages
> originally
> written as emails. here now is a way to make windows Mail open .eml
> files. (Save the attachment to your hard drive, My Documents or
> wherever
> you save stuff to. then try to open it. If that doesn't work, follow
> the
> steps below:
>
> "When somebody forwarded an email as an attachment, you used to be
> able
> to click on it in Windows Mail or Outlook Express, and the message
> opened just nicely - in Outlook Express, again. Now, suddenly, either
> nothing happens, a curious dialog comes up, or the .eml file opens in
> a
> completely unrelated application?
> Fret not. If you re-associate these .eml files or attachments with
> Outlook Express, they will open in your email program again, and
> creating that association is easy.
>
> Associate .EML Files and Attachments with Windows Mail
> To make .eml files and attachments open in Windows Mail:
>
> a.. Open the Start menu.
> b.. Type "default programs" (not including the quotation marks) in
> the
> Start Search field.
> c.. Click Default Programs.
> d.. Follow the Associate a file type or protocol with a program link.
> e.. Highlight .eml in the list.
> f.. Click Change program&ldots;.
> g.. Select Windows Mail.
> a.. If Windows Mail is not in the Recommended Programs list, click
> Browse, type "winmail.exe" under File name: and click Open.
> h.. Click OK.
> i.. Click Close.
> As an alternative:
>
> a.. Select Tools | Options... from the menu in Windows Mail.
> b.. Make sure you're on the General tab.
> c.. Click Make Default under This application is NOT the default Mail
> handler.
> a.. Note that selecting this will also make Windows Mail your
> default program for composing emails, for example. Do use the method
> above if you solely want to associate .eml files with Windows Mail."
> b..
> ----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Trish" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 3:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Attachment will not read
>
>
>> Flor,
>>
>> Here's exactly what my brother in law said regarding this txt
>> attachment..
>>
>> I can't do it either. I don't think it is the fact that she took the
>> pictures out, or that it is a txt file or that you need to open it
>> with
>> notepad....I think it has to do with it being an eml attachment. I
>> just
>> can't open those. I guess she'll just have to copy and paste it into
>> the
>> body of the email. She doesn't have to worry about how pretty it
>> looks,
>> Jaws will read it anyway.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>From: "Flor Lynch" <[email protected]>
>> To: <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 9:07 AM
>> Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Attachment will not read
>>
>>
>> Trish,
>> What conversion software would that be? And, when the pictures were
>> removed there was probably no remaining text in the file. to a
>> sighted
>> person, text in images and straight text in files are virtually the
>> same
>> thing. (You would need OCR software to convert images of text into
>> meaningful text.) Not sure what is the latest .docx version that Open
>> Book can convert from.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>From: "Trish" <[email protected]>
>> To: "Jaws Users List" <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 2:51 PM
>> Subject: [JAWS-Users] Attachment will not read
>>
>>
>>>I recently received an attachment from my association. I cannot read
>>>it
>>>no matter what I try, and sending it to my brother in law who can
>>>see,
>>>he cannot see any text on it as well.
>>> The first one was saved as a .dox, then my conversion software did
>>> not
>>> convert it. So I asked the sender to send again in a .txt, which she
>>> did, but even that jaws reads me nothing. She told me she removed
>>> the
>>> pictures, I told her it wasn't necessary if there is text on the
>>> screen.
>>> I noticed that this attachment after the file extension says, in
>>> bites. I've never heard that before and wonder if this is why I'm
>>> not
>>> able to read it?
>>>
>>> My brother in law told me, it suggested to him to open the
>>> attachment
>>> with OE, or Outlook, now he doesn't have OE on his job computer, he
>>> might have Outlook, but still he wasn't able to read anything.
>>>
>>> Can anyone on list figure this out?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Trish
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