Hi Kirsten,

This is a case where you have to first interact with the mail messages table 
for the commands to take effect.  They are specific to a table environment.

HTH.  Cheers,

Esther

On Apr 16, 2012, at 10:00 AM, Kirsten Edmondson wrote:

> Hi Esther, 
> Despite when I use function and the arrowes or function plus shift and the 
> arrowes it won't move anywhere. I have an MBP running Lion OSX. When I try 
> them in mail or in pages, they don't work. Any idea what I'm doing wrong? Do 
> I have mail set to the wrong view? I'm in the messages table and I arrow 
> across from status to conversation then from then subject then date, if that 
> makes sense. 
> Thanks. 
> Kirsten. 
> 
> On 16 Apr 2012, at 03:20, Esther wrote:
> 
>> Hi Frank,
>> 
>> If you're using a laptop keyboard or Apple Wireless keyboard you have to add 
>> "Shift" to those combinations, so it's VO-Fn-Shift-Left arrow to go to the 
>> top of the list and VO-Fn-Shift-Right arrow to move to bottom of the list.  
>> Without the shift keys you're moving to the top and bottom of the visible 
>> list.
>> 
>> On a full-size keyboard, these sequences are VO-Shift-Home to move to the 
>> start of the list and VO-Shift-End to move to the end of the list, where 
>> "Home" is Fn+Left arrow and "End" is Fn+Right arrow on a laptop keyboard.  
>> Similarly, VO-Home and VO-End move you to the first and last visible 
>> elements  of a list.
>> 
>> The quick way to verify this is to turn on keyboard help with VO-k, then 
>> type these sequences to learn their functions, then press escape to exit 
>> keyboard help mode.
>> 
>> I do miss the feature that worked up through Snow Leopard where you could 
>> simply press the Option key along with up (or down) arrow, and just wait a 
>> bit to be taken to the first or last item in the message list.
>> 
>> HTH.  Cheers,
>> 
>> Esther
>> 
>> On Apr 15, 2012, at 3:23 PM, Frank Ventura wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi all, when in a message list in mail sometimes I want to jump to the top 
>>> or bottom of the list. If I use FN VO Left Arrow it moves up by 25 rows. If 
>>> I use FN VO Right Arrow it moves down by 25 rows. Is there a means of 
>>> jumping through the entire list? For example if I have 65 items in a folder 
>>> and at row 2 how can I jump to row 65?
>>> thanks
>>> Frank
>>> 
>> 

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