Your info was not pointless! I'm coming from outlook 2010, and have been using outlook since 2005, and I always hid the preview pain. Your info was right on time, thanks a bunch! If you have any more tips please let me know. My email is skhleirpehctcoens7...@gmail.com thanks. On Jun 8, 2011, at 1:18 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote:
> I like hiding it, for two reasons. > > 1. Most importantly, it gives you less screen clutter. > > 2. If you're coming from a windows background as I am, and on Windows, > disabled the preview payne, then you might find having it enabled on the Mac > to be a bit awquard. Each is to his/her own. If you don't want to disable > it, don't. I just thought some may could benefit from it. There is no real > particular reason you'd want to, it's just a preference. > > I personally like it hidden. You, on the other hand may not. > > I prefer it being like in the old days more menu style. You highlight the > message and hit return to open it, then command w to close it. > > I know you can do that without hiding the payne, but again, > > I dono... maybe I gave pointless info... I thought I was helping. > > Sorry. > > Chris. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ronald McEwan" <ron.mce...@gmail.com> > To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 2:03 PM > Subject: Re: Toggling Preview Payne in Mail: a how-to Tutorial > > > Very nice but one question. Why would you want to either hide or unhide the > preview pane? > > > > In the Journey, > > Ron > > On Jun 8, 2011, at 11:32 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: > >> OK, I myself and a few of my other friends have wondered how to toggle on >> and off the mail preview in mail that is below the messages table using Snow >> Leopard. It certainly was easier to do this in both Tiger and in Leopard, >> but, here's how to do it in 10.6. A sighted friend and I have confirmed at >> least five times that this consistently works regardless how your view is >> set in Mail. >> >> 1. Open up Mail. >> 2. Be sure that you're not interacting with anything whatsoever by pressing >> vo+shift+sup arrow until you hear a ding. >> >> 3. Move to the top of the screen with vo+home, or fn+vo+left arrow, >> depending on your setup. >> >> 4. Vo+right arrow past your mailboxes table, then one more time to the >> messages table list, and finally one more time to a horizontal splitter. >> This is where the hiding magic is gonna be at. >> >> 5. Even if your mouse follows your voiceover cursor, trust me with this as >> this doesn't appear consistent route your mouse pointer with vo+command+F5. >> remember that you may have to also use the fn key if your F keys are set to >> hardware. >> >> 6. Now, here's the trick. instead of doing like before, and double >> clicking with a double vo+shift+space, you need to literally speaking click >> the physical mouse. I don't mean click with a literal click through >> voiceover. Even vo+shift+space... that isn't good enough. You literally >> for some odd reason have to click the actual mouse or track pad. Remember >> if you are on a macbook using a track pad, the track pad is set up in such a >> way that different parts of it do different things. I wasn't aware of this, >> until my friend told me. So, what you want to do after routing your mouse >> to that horizontal splitter, is to left double click. So on a track pad, >> that will need to be done by double clicking at the very bottom left corner >> of the track pad. Otherwise, just reach up to the mouse and double click >> the left mouse button, or the only mouse button there if you have an >> external apple mouse. Now the area should be gone. Voiceover won't tell >> you this right away, but trust me, if you do it right it'll work >> consistently. >> >> >> To turn the preview payne back on...: >> >> 1. Make sure in mail that you're again, not interacting with anything at >> all. >> >> 2. Now navigate to the top left of the window with your vo+home or >> fn+vo+left arrow, again depending on your setup. >> >> 3. Next, vo+right arrow until you reach the message list table. Trust me >> with this. >> >> 4. Press vo+shift+down arrow to interact with the messages table scroll >> area. >> >> 5. Highlight with vo+down arrow, any message in the list. It doesn't >> matter which one, just so that one is selected. >> >> 6. Press vo+shift+up arrow to stop interacting with the message list table. >> >> 7. If you now vo+right arrow, you're gonna see two horizontal splitters. >> you want the second one you'll come to. A short way to get there is to do >> vo+end, or fn+vo+right arrow. Basically, it's at the very bottom right >> corner of the screen. Now remember from above, you ***have!*** No ifs ands >> or buts to it, you have! to have a message highlighted in the message list >> table. Otherwise this second horizontal splitter won't even be there. Once >> you find that second horizontal splitter, do like we did a second ago to >> hide the preview. So, route your mouse, vo+command+F5, plus your fn key if >> needed, then again, left double click your mouse. Again, bottom left >> corner, if you're on a track pad like on a macbook. Again, Voiceover won't >> necessarily tell you it worked. But again, it's very consistent. Trust me >> I did it about 5 times. It does work, if you do it correctly exactly as >> I've told you to do it. >> >> A very warm thanks to my friend Norma Watts for this tip. >> >> One more thing is, by the way, when you go to unhide the preview, make sure >> you have a message highlited in the message list. I can't stress that >> enough. If you don't have anything in the message list as it's empty, then >> a sollution would be either to find a mailbox that has some messages >> populated, or if worst last resort, just e-mail yourself to make a message >> pop up in the table. >> >> The other thing is, I don't thing you have to have a message highlighted >> when you're hiding the preview. Only when you're unhiding, however, just to >> be on the safe side, until I figure out otherwise, it may be good practice >> anyway to highlight a message first, even when hiding. >> >> I hope this helps some of you out. YOu all're definitely welcome to post >> this on any web site or blog. I have no problem with that. >> >> Take care. >> >> Chris. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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. 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