David, I normally do what you suggest and have often been able to work around tasks this way. The email subject field, however, seems to be a different animal. If I fill in the address field, I then can tap on the screen to open the subject field,. However, I'm not really in the subject field. I am in the address field. Even when I try using my finger to swipe left and back to the field again as was suggested earlier, I still end up in the address field.
I'm not going to spend too much more list time on this. I'll just chalk it up to a keyboard oddity. Thanks for people's help. Neal -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Chittenden Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 5:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Problems filling in the subject in email messages Ok, now I understand what is going on. iOS devices have always been designed for direct input from the touch-screen. Keyboard access was added later. When a field is activated directly on the screen, it always activates editing properly. When a field is activated using a Bluetooth keyboard, it occasionally does not activate. This occasional problem with opening fields for editing using a Bluetooth device also occurs with Braille displays. The solution is quite simple. Do as sighted people, even those who use a physical keyboard do, activate edit fields on the touch-screen directly. In other words, work with your device rather than against it. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: [email protected] Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 23/03/2013, at 6:50, "Neal Ewers" <[email protected]> wrote: > Lisa, thanks for this. I thought I could trick Apple. What an absurd > thing to try to do. I thought I could simply fill in the subject field > first and go back to the address field and fill it in. Well that > worked, or so I thought, But when I got back to the subject, I could > not go any further. The message field would not appear. I had to click > once inside the subject field and then get out of that field and then > the message field appeared. How strange. I am using the Apple blue > tooth keyboard if that makes a difference. > > Bottom line, it works, but the question is, would there be an easier way? > > Thanks. > > Neal > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Lisa belville > Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 12:20 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Problems filling in the subject in email messages > > Ah, Neil, I encountered this phenomenon for the first time this > morning. I had to remove everything from the to field, then edit the > subject field, come back and reenter the to address and it worked. > before that, I kept double-checking to be sure that yes, I was indeed > editing the subject field, but the subject kept showing up next to the > text in the to field for some reason. > > I've sent several Emails on my phone and this was a new occurrence, so > not sure what's going on. At least there's a relatively low-tech solution. > > > > Lisa > The 2 most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and Bull-Crap > Lisa Belville [email protected] > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Neal Ewers" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 10:35 AM > Subject: Problems filling in the subject in email messages > > >> Hi all, I am definitely missing something basic here. When I send an >> email, I can find the address field and enter the address. I then >> find the subject field and double tap to enter text. However, when I >> enter it, it is placed at the end of the email address in the >> address," field. I remember having this problem when I used my >> iTouch, so it's definitely Neal and not the iPhone. 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