Hi, The Trackpad is just a portable Bluetooth version of the Trackpads that are built-in to Apple laptops. It allows you to use similar gestures as those you’d use on an iDevice when you turn on the Trackpad commander. It does not , though, allow for touch-screen keyboard actions.
Later… Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada > On Oct 27, 2014, at 9:07 PM, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona > <[email protected]> wrote: > > is the track pad a mouse or can it also be served as a touch screen keyboard? > Hank > > On 10/27/2014 7:55 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: >> Hi, >> >> The Preview pane is where the message body is automatically displayed when >> focus is put on a specific message in the Messages List. To the sighted >> user, they either click on a message, or arrow down the list, and as focus >> is put on the item in the list, the body quickly appears to the right or >> below, I can’t remember which location for sure. For the VO user, it is >> similar, except that if you just arrow down through the messages list, >> without jumping over to read the message, it is counted as a “read” message >> even though you didn’t actually read the body of the message. Many of us >> don’t like this, thus, turn off the Preview pane so only messages that we’ve >> actually read show up as read. >> >> Regarding the use of the Trackpad, that is just one tool that can do the >> job. A mouse can do the trick just the same as a Trackpad. When you use >> the mouse, do exactly as the instructions say to do with the Trackpad, but >> hold down the mouse button instead and drag as outlined in those >> instructions. If you really do wish the portable Trackpad for your Mini, I >> would just order it from the Apple On-line store and have it shipped to your >> home instead of going an hour away to the Apple Store. The nearest Apple >> Store for me is a 5 hour drive, so, the On-Line Store is my normal method. >> >> HTH. >> >> Later… >> >> Tim Kilburn >> Fort McMurray, AB Canada >> >>> On Oct 27, 2014, at 5:54 PM, Regina Alvarado <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> A completely stupid question. However, here goes. What is the preview pane? >>> Is it the list of messages? If so, I am running Mavericks on a Mini. What >>> would happen if I hid it? How do I do it from the keyboard? I faved an >>> email that says to swipe down on the pad. I do not have this device. Also, >>> is Yosemite worth taking my Mini an hour away to have an apple store put it >>> on? >>> >>> reggie and Allegra >>> >>> On Oct 27, 2014, at 6:18 PM, matthew dyer <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Last night, I was able to remove the preview in mail by switching to >>> classic view then moving over to the spliter between the message list and >>> the message pain after doing this I switched back to the standered view and >>> I was able to confirm that the message pain was disabled both before and >>> after restarting mail. >>> >>> Today I had to reducible it after turning on my mac this afternoon. Now for >>> the life of me it will not stick for some reason. Is there anyone on this >>> list having the same problem and how did you salve this? Thanks. It is >>> very annoying. BTW I had this problem in mavrecs and I have updated to >>> yosemity and still have this problemm. 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