Hi Harry, I'll paste in here my instructions I posted in a different thread with the steps you can use to get rid of the Preview Pane in Mountain Lion Mail.
1. Removing the Preview Pane in Classic layout: • Navigate to the Horizontal Splitter that is to the right of the Messages table. • Press VO-cmd-f5 (add FN if needed). This will bring the mouse to the VO cursor and announce where the mouse is and it should read "Horizontal Splitter". • Double-click on your Trackpad or alternatively, you can press near the top of the Trackpad and drag to the bottom. Make sure in this case that you actually make the Trackpad button depress so that the drag action will work. 2. Removing the Preview Pane for non-Classic layout: • Navigate to the Vertical Splitter just to the right of the Messages Column Group. • Press VO-cmd-f5 (add FN if necessary) to bring the mouse to the VO cursor. It will announce Vertical Splitter if it did what it was supposed to do. • Double-click on the Trackpad or alternatively, put your finger near the left hand side of the Trackpad, then drag to the far right and release. As in the first case, make sure that you depress the Trackpad button so that the dragging process will occur. Note that in the Classic layout, you are dealing with a Horizontal Splitter and in the non-Classic layout, you are dealing with a Vertical Splitter. Each case requires a different dragging direction if you choose that option. There are a couple of ways of determining if it worked. Firstly, you can navigate around the Mail screen and if you don't hear anything about "Message Content Area", life is good. The second method is a little more complicated but tells you for sure. In Classic layout, navigate to the Horizontal Splitter to the right of the "New Mailbox Action" menu. You'll notice two Horizontal splitters, one after the Messages Table and this one that I'm talking about. Once you've located this Horizontal Splitter, Interact with it and press VO-down. Vo will announce "Collapsed" which is what you want to hear. In non-Classic layout, navigate to the Vertical Splitter just to the right of the Messages Column Group and Interact with it. Press VO-right and VO will announce "Collapsed" if the Preview pane is gone. HTH. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2012-08-01, at 1:23 AM, Harry Hogue <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Anne, > > Wow -- I just now switched to classic view to see the differences, and it is > unnerving. I think I will keep standard view for now but will try and move > the preview panel. > > Thanks, > > Harry > > On Aug 1, 2012, at 1:11 AM, Anne Robertson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello Harry, >> >> You need to get rid of the preview panel. That will stop Mail from opening >> every message you land on. I'm unable to help you with how to do this for >> two reasons: I haven't yet upgraded to Mountain Lion and I use Classic View >> in Mail. >> >> However, if you can find the horizontal splitter between the headers and the >> body of the message, bring the mouse and double click using the trackpad and >> it might just work. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Anne >> >> >> On 1 Aug 2012, at 05:58, Harry Hogue wrote: >> >>> Hi, guys, >>> >>> I've never changed my Mail preferences at all from when Mail came with my >>> computer on Snow Leopard, and I haven't changed it for Mountain Lion, >>> either. When I move to a message or a message thread, the message I am >>> focused on becomes read, so that VoiceOver will read something like, "Two >>> message conversation collapsed Triangle, John Smith, The subject here, two >>> conversation message collapsed disclosure triangle, Jane Doe, subject >>> here." I hope this isn't too confusing. it's kind of hard to explain. >>> Basically it marks the current message as read and repeats all of the >>> thread information a second time, replacing the information with the next >>> name in the thread. >>> >>> Does this make sense? I think this topic has been covered before, but I >>> don't remember under what thread or what to search for. Help is >>> appreciated. 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