Laura, I also often have to forward messages with a different Subject. I asked in a different thread if there was a keyboard shortcut for this, and learned that after you've hit F to forward, Shift-Tab (once or twice; once works for me) will put the focus on the drop-down where you can then use the Down arrow (5 times, for me) to get to the Edit subject option.
I've used this so much that it hardly takes any time any more. Certainly it's faster than mousing. Bonus tip: If you want to use the same subject but without the "Fwd", when the subject is highlighted, hitting Home will take you to the beginning of the line and deselect it; 5 hits of the Delete key gets rid of the "Fwd: . --APB On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Laura Higdon <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm just curious if you had any luck with your suggestion to Gmail.. > I am having a similar issue. I have to forward emails with attachments to > several different customers. It would be so much easier if the subject line > was automatically visible so that I didn't have to click the dropdown box > each time to edit subject. > > > On Friday, January 9, 2009 3:32:57 PM UTC-5, Jamel wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Could you please let me know if there is a way to change the subject >> in Gmail. >> >> If there is no way, is it possible to submit enhancement to Gmail so >> that this can be fixed. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Jamel >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Gmail-Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
