Kathleen - You can deselect individual messages in a selected (highlighted) list by Command-clicking on them.
I am using PowerMail 4.2.1 -- Don V. Zahniser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Powerbook 1400cs, 133MHz, 64Mb, Mac OS 9.0.4 On Monday, July 5, 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was rumored to have said: >At work, I have to use a pc and have Pegasus Mail. There is one thing it >does that I wish could be incorporated into PowerMail. When highlighting > groups of messages for deletion if an error is made, I can back up and >unhighlight one message at a time. With PM the only way is to clear the >action and start over. > >Kathleen > > >

