[stylist] Outlook question from volunteer NFB PR person

Thu Aug 4 11:43:02 UTC 2011

Donna
RE: your problem- here are a few ideas, like off the top of my head and I
can say now, none of these are perfect; but the next ones you get in, you
shouldn't have this problem again.

#1 Weird experience! I have many separate folders, but I've never made one
within an existing folder. I'm wondering if you were to make a separate
folder and then tried some experimenting- like within the sub-folder that
you have where the names are different, leave a copy of the original
messages in there, but from within that folder, copy them all over to a new
stand-a-a-lone new folder and --- well did the copies still come out looking
like the changed messages which are missing the name or by some merical did
they convert back? 

#2 Here is an idea, possibly a pain in the butt --- but, paste all the text
of the messages into a word document- doing this for only these few and not
any new ones- just putting them in a form that you can quickly search.
(Maybe saving each message via the "save-as," saving them in txt which then
would expose the email address, too.

#3 Okay, forward them back to yourself and in the subject line, paste in the
name that you want to show. (Yeah, this does not help the ease of "replying"
to a message, requiring going into the message to get an address. 

#4 If you haven't, do make a new folder or series of folders to take the new
stuff you will be getting. Make that folder so it is a stand-a-lone folder
and not one found within an existing folder (if you do not know how, I can
assist further). 

#5 MMM, it could have been that arrange by feature thing! Can you re-save,
rearrange them and get a different result?

Do 
-----Original Message-----
From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Donna Hill
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 4:37 PM
To: Writer's Division Mailing List; nfbp-talk
Subject: [stylist] Outlook question from volunteer NFB PR person

Hi Friends,

I'm putting this out there, because I'm trying to find a way to handle the
mass of e-mail I'm generating when I do PR for the NFB. I used to use
Thunderbird, which didn't have this problem, but it recently started
crashing so much, I had to switch. I'm now using Outlook 2003, and here's a
"for instance" about what I'm trying to do and what happens.

I'm in the midst of trying to generate publicity for the kids who one the
Writers' Division Youth Writing Contest, which includes a boy from
Philadelphia. Since I have to refer back to the e-mails I've sent out to the
press and the parents, and since I'm sending out many e-mails both about
this and other things, I'm finding myself spending a lot of my increasingly
limited time downarrowing through my Sent and In Box folders. I thought
making a subfolder under Sent would at least help me keep track of the
outgoing mail, so I made one for the contest. Unfortunately, when I
transferred the mail to it, Jaws 12 no longer reads the name of the
recipient, and it has replaced it with the name of my account. Obviously
this is less than no help. I thought using the "arrange by" submenu would
work, but when I selected "To," it may have shifted things out of date
order, but the recipient's name is still unavailable to Jaws.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Donna

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