Opening photos in Camera Raw format

I need to open my photos for the project I am working on in camera raw format  to access the editing options I need.  I repeat the same steps but they only open up in that format about half the time. Does anyone have an idea about what I am doing wrong?

Thank you David.  Yes, I absolutely agree.  It is an amazing resource - especially someone new to it and feeling a little overwhelmed.
They are jpeg photos that have been forwarded to me that I am then trying to Open As in camera raw format so that I can reduce the noise and get them ready to be displayed on a website.  What has me bumfuzzled is that sometimes it works perfectly, sometimes it works if I try it a few times in a row and sometimes it just doesn't. ? So I thought there must be a different way to approach the access that I haven't found yet.  One thing I thought of since my last post, but haven't had a chance to try, is that I am pulling these files out of my Windows Pictures rather than uploading them to pse first.  Do you think that would make a difference?

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