[gui-talk] enabling bcc in outlook 2003

Sun Oct 8 17:45:03 CDT 2006

I've always been a fan of using Microsoft Word for editing everything, blog posts, anything.  I prefer its speed and superior spelling and grammar checking.  I need both and like the additional features Word offers, like a thesaurus, etc.

Early on, using Word as the editor was problematic, but in the past couple of releases, it's gotten nearly seamless.  Starting with the next version, Outlook 2007, the Word editor is the only editor available.

Charles Oppermann / Program Manager / Speech Components / Microsoft Corporation
http://blogs.msdn.com/chuckop/

-----Original Message-----
From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2006 3:02 PM
To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] enabling bcc in outlook 2003

As an OE user (I have Outlook on my system, but find its interface
needlessly daunting considering that I don't have any use for most of its
additional features), may I ask why some Outlook users might prefer to use
Word for composing their emails instead of the default text editor?  If the
default capabilities are similar to OE's, then you already have at your
disposal the font and formatting capabilities of Rich Text, for instance, if
you care to use them (I send my email out in plain text, actually, so even
that isn't important to me)

I confess that if I'm composing a long or complex message that I want to
treat pretty formally, I'm likely to compose it in Word so I can take
advantage of Word's familiar editing and navigational functions, as well as
its superior spell checker, but then, when I've got the text I want, I copy
and paste it from my Word document right into the open new email message
area, check to make sure it's transferred okay, and send.  I never find
myself wishing I could have been using Word from within OE.  It's just not a
big hassle.

Maybe I'm missing something?

Thanks.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Curtis Chong" <CurtisChong at earthlink.net>
To: "'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2006 2:46 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] enabling bcc in outlook 2003

Chuck:

Yes, indeed, your explanation was definitely far more thorough than mine.
As a practical matter, I prefer not to use Word as the editor when using
Outlook because, at least in the past, the behavior with JAWS was somewhat
problematic.  I am guessing that some of this has improved of late<grin>.

Anyway, thanks for the very clear and thorough explanation.

Cordially,

Curtis Chong

-----Original Message-----
From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Charles Oppermann
Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2006 4:26 PM
To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] enabling bcc in outlook 2003

Hi Curtis, long time!

Actually, BCC field may or may not be shown for all users. By default, it's
hidden until the user chooses to show it.

However, how you enable depends on whether on a few things.  First, we're
talking about Microsoft Outlook, and not Outlook Express.  The next
condition is whether or not Microsoft Word is used as the message editor
(the default).

If Word is being used as editor, there will be an "Options..." button on the
toolbar.  This a split button, with a little down arrow to the right.
Pressing the button will bring up the Message Options dialog.  This does not
have the BCC option.  Instead, you have to click on the little down arrow of
the split button.  That'll drop down a menu and one of the items will be
"Show BCC".

Now, in order to use the BCC field, you don't have show the field.  You can
use either the "To..." or "Cc..." button to bring up the Select Names
dialog.  That dialog allows you to pick an Address Book, choose names from a
list and has To, CC and BCC fields.  This is very convenient if you just
need to use BCC occasionally.

Charles Oppermann / Program Manager / Speech Components / Microsoft
Corporation
http://blogs.msdn.com/chuckop/

-----Original Message-----
From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Curtis Chong
Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2006 12:23 PM
To: 'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] enabling bcc in outlook 2003

Greetings:

Simply open a new message and then go to the View menu.  You will find a
line item that says "BCC".  Press Enter on it, and you will have the BCC
field.

Cordially,

Curtis Chong

-----Original Message-----
From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Dean Martineau
Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2006 11:22 AM
To: 'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'
Subject: [gui-talk] enabling bcc in outlook 2003

I've recently been forced to switch to Outlook because Eudora suffered some
inexplicable crash and won't run any more.  That's ok, but I can't seem to
enable the bcc field in Outlook.  When I'm creating a message, there's no
toolbar button for bcc, nor is there a view menu item for it, nor an option
I can find anywhere n the various options pages.  What to do?

Dean

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