First, I want to say that I'm a bit unnerved because I had written most of a response after trying out the variations you described, Marko, and the message has disappeared! I did not hit delete, at least not knowingly.
Anyway, for detail-oriented direction-followers such as I, no step is to be assumed. As I have discovered and then saw Andy also has mentioned, Reply has to be hit before any of the other steps. However, to then use Ctrl+A to expand the ellipses is two keystrokes. You're done if you want your reply to be at the bottom, but add one more step if you want to start at the top. Similarly, pressing Ctrl+Shift+A is three keystrokes to expand the ellipses, but at least the cursor is positioned at the top. Add another keystroke if you want the cursor to be at the bottom. The down arrow *or* End key will get you to the bottom. Finally, clicking only on the ellipses to expand is *one keystroke* with the cursor positioned at the top. I'm a believer that in typing, less is better. I like learning variations, whatever the topic. *~Diane* * * On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 12:59 AM, Marko Vukovic <marko.vuko...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Diane > > On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Diane <depfah...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> If I'm following you correctly, Andy, the Ctrl+A "trick" places your >> reply *below* the original message whereas using the regular Reply >> option puts your text *above* the trimmed content, which can be opened >> to reveal the previous message. >> > > I pointed this out to Andy in an earlier post. Ctrl-A is simply 'select > all'. It will also expand the ellipsis. If you select all and start typing, > your reply will overwrite everything. If you press the down-arrow cursor > key, the cursor will move to the bottom of the message. > If you simply wish to expand the ellipsis without clicking anything, press > Ctrl-Shift-A. This is the opposite of select all (ie. nothing). > > -- > Marko > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gmail-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to gmail-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
