[Trainer-talk] Activating Office Assistant

[Andrews, David B (DEED)]

The way you describe is the only way I know to do it.  Also, if you are on a network, there are tabs for internal messages and external, and you must do them separately.

Dave



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From: Trainer-talk [mailto:trainer-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of therese gardner
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2014 5:31 AM
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Subject: [Trainer-talk] Activating Office Assistant

Hello All:

 

I apologize for the lengthy message but I figured the more information I could provide the better.

 

This message relates to JAWS, Windows 7 and Outlook 2010.

 

Recently my employer has switched over to Outlook 2010. With this change, I found that the key commands I used to activate/deactivate Out of office Assistant no longer worked.

 

I then began to review numerous matterials I possess to find the answer. No luck. I also contacted an individual who knows their stuff with JAWS and MO products. Again, no luck. I finally found something on the internet that gave me a lead as to what I am looking for and where to begin. However, the steps I am taking appear to be combersum.

 

I found that if your e-mail account is part of an exchange server you should take these steps.

 

ALT-F to bring up the toolbar

I to bring up Info

Tab approximately two times and you will land on Auto Response

>From there you enter and work your way through the prompts.

 

The above appears to work.

 

Again, the above mentioned seems combersum and I just have to believe there is a few simple key commands to get this job done.

 

My other delema is this. 

 

The above mentioned does not work on my home computer. In my quest to find the answer, the only thing I found was that I need to turn something on within Outlook that is no longer automatically turned on. What that something is I have no idea. I presume it is turning on Auto Response. But where is it?

 

A friend was trying the Rules Wizzard but again a pain.

 

One question we came up with is can one create an out of office message using g-mail? But of course this would only work if one has a g-mail account.

 

Any, and all, information would be very much appreciated.

 

 

Thank you 

 

Therese