Ricardo: This is intetresting. When I have my finger on the subject on the trackpad, I press ctl and press that finger down and the email's open. Haven't seen a menu as you describe. That's the mac, all right. Full of mystery!!!:)
CarolynOn Sep 22, 2010, at 10:45 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi Mark, > > Hope all is well with you. I have found that the only way to do what you ask > is to do a control left click like Carolyn suggested. This is done by > holding down the control key and pressing the bottom left corner of the > trackpad. This brings up a context menu in which open is the first option in > the list. double tap on open and your good to go. This being said, it's > quicker just to press enter on the message via the keyboard. > > hth > On Sep 22, 2010, at 10:41 AM, M. Taylor wrote > >> Thank you Carolyn and Kevin for attempting to answer my question. >> >> I am reposting the question because i don't think I was clear in what I >> seek. >> >> First, lets forget about the threaded component. >> >> Second, what I want to do it to merely use the the Multi-Touch TrackPad, on >> my MacBook Pro to open an email in the Apple Mail Message viewer. >> >> Keep in mind that I do not wish to jump from one area of the Inbox to a >> preview pane. >> >> My Message viewer is configured so that when I am in any mailbox's Inbox, >> all I see on the Message list with which I interact is the Status, From, >> Subject, and Date of the message. >> >> It is in this message list view that I currently select a message in the >> list by using the arrow key, followed by tapping the Enter Key in order to >> open the message in its own separate Window. >> >> So, my question is based on my desire to no longer press the Enter key but >> use my TrackPad to "open" the message viewer in its own separate window. >> >> I'm hoping someone out there knows how to do this. >> >> Thank you all, once again. >> >> Mark >> PS >> Using the Control key in combination with pressing the TrackPad did not >> result in opening a message. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
