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.  Apple if you are listening  please 
>>> give us the option of disabling the preview pain through either the menus 
>>> or with a keystroke.  
>>> 
>>> Thanks again.
>>> 
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