I’ve just tested Londa’s method. The following steps will find messages with attachments in Outlook 2010, and JAWS verbalizes each step :
Place focus at the desired message list. Control-shift-f once to the “Categories” button. Do not press enter, even though there’s an ellipsis inviting you to do so. Instead, press tab three times. You land in a checkbox labeled Only items with…” Press spacebar. Tab once, and “One or more attachments” is the first item in the combo box. Press enter. Wait for JAWS to announce “Find Now,” then press F6 to enter the list of search results. From: Brian Vogel [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 22, 2016 11:29 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Advanced Searching in Outlook 2010 - Opinions Sought On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 08:20 am, Londa Peterson <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Then I can type the first letter, or several letters if I want, and I'll get fairly close. Hope this helps. Londa, Is there a trick to getting several letters to work? I have never been able, on any version of JAWS I've worked with, to get it to recognize the second through nth characters of a file name. This would be so handy such that if you knew you had a file named file1.txt and file2.txt that you could type in file2 and have JAWS zoom right to the correct one. One of the reasons I've started teaching clients how to use Search Everything and the Copy-Paste technique of attaching files is because it's just far less tedious when they know enough of a file name to get search results that are either the single file or very few files, and those will be found anywhere they happen to be on the computer. The amount of time saved with navigating via browsing when the files in question are nowhere near each other in the folder tree is huge. Brian
