Category: Geeks r Us
Oh boy, y'all. I am new to outlook 2007 and so ar, I'm finding it complicated and challenging to get a clear vision of the layout.
Please I'm accepting any and all tips.
I'm especially interested in the calendar function.
I'm using win xp and window-eyes 7.2.
Thanks so much
I have never used Window Eyes but I'll give some tips and tricks.
First of, I had near crash experience with XP and Office 2007, I ended up installing Windows 7, resinstalling Office 2007 and now have much better luck with it, certainly hope this was just a machine speccific issue.
Outlook inbox is simple, you can use the view payne to arrange them, I use descending order of date received i.e. latest received on top. WE should tell you which messages have higher importance, attahments, are unread etc.
To go to you main entries use ctrl-y or go to, there you can choose deteled items, journal, calendar and a few other folders.
At least with Jaws, you navigate the calendar with arrows left and right to jump between days, up and down arrows to jump between time slots in half hour increments and the tab key to land you directly on the meetings you have scheduled that day.
Once you accept a meeting invite it jumps directly to your calendar, so you can view it by using ctrl-y then c for calendar, enter and then right arrow to the given day and use tab key to find appoinemtns.
Same if you create new taks or meeting and place it there.
The journal works the same way except you can track documents and correspondance and past and future meetings and notes, it is more comprihensive, I have not used it much.
Hope this is a start.
-B
Once you've got dates on your calendar and have it set to open on Outlook today you'll see these a day or 2 or depending on how you set it on that page, so it keeps you up. I don't know the Window Eyes setup for it, but I'll bget they've got a how to on it. It will tend to get out of wack if you don't keep the boxes cleaned up though, but if you do it's a great tool.