Hi Carolyn, Hmm, Do you have the preview pane showing in Apple Mail? I do and the gesture your doing is the jump to linked iTem gesture. When you leave your finger on the subject and press control the gesture I just mentioned is being performed. Try holding control down first without touching the trackpad. Now press the bottom left or right of the trackpad. This will perform the control click I was referring to that open the context menu. Then double tapping on open in the menu will make a new window open up displaying the message instead of just moving you over to the preview pane like I think happened with you. Let me know what happens.
Thanks. On Sep 22, 2010, at 1:06 PM, Carolyn Haas wrote: > Ricardo: > This is interesting. 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. > -- 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.
