First of all, these aren't my suggestions; as I explained they are a previous post by Tim Kilburn.
Secondly, different things work better for different people, depending on your experience and what your computer is doing. The reason for the comments about using fn if necessary is that you can have f1 f2, f3, etc. set to be used as standard function keys in System Preferences > Keyboard and your setting determines whether or not the fn key is also needed. as for the "trackpad stuff", some people choose to use the trackpad more than others but it's a good idea at least to become familiar with trackpad and mouse terminology to some extent because there may be times when that's the only way you can accomplish the task even if that method isn't usually your preference. This terminology isn't actually unprecise. But certainly each of us finds that one way of performing a task is easier than anothr and this preference varies from person to person. It's good to have more than one way of doing things. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Jan 10, 2013, at 1:16 PM, "John Sanfilippo" <vze33...@verizon.net> wrote: > I find your second explanation seems much simpler and clearer than all the > trackpad stuff you mentioned. The key commands seem simpler and more precise. > > js > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Cheryl Homiak > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 9:29 AM > Subject: Re: Hiding the Preview Pane in Mail > > Here's a post of Tim Kilburn's on this subject; it helped me when nothing > else completely did. > "Try the following. > > 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." > > -- > Cheryl > > May the words of my mouth > and the meditation of my heart > be acceptable to You, Lord, > my rock and my Redeemer. > (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) > > > > On Jan 9, 2013, at 11:00 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Try just double clicking the splitter. Move to it, route your mouse cursor > > to it with vo-cmd-f5, then hit vo-shift-space twice quickly. If you are not > > on Mountain Lion, you may have more trouble with this. > > On Jan 9, 2013, at 11:57 PM, Nicholas Parsons > > <mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Hi list, > >> > >> I've read that one can hide the preview pane in the three column view in > >> Mail. This way, messages won't be marked as read unless you open them in a > >> separate window. Currently I find it a little annoying that messages are > >> marked as read when I've only read their subject line and not the full > >> message. > >> > >> However, I've been unable to work out how to do this with VoiceOver. > >> Apparently one need only drag the vertical splitter between the message > >> list and the preview pane all the way to the right. However, when I try > >> interacting with this vertical splitter and VO-right arrowing all the way > >> to the right until VoiceOver reads 100%, the preview pane is still visible > >> to VoiceOver and messages still marked as read when I focus on them in the > >> message list even when I haven't actually read them. > >> > >> Has anyone else had any success with this? > >> > >> Cheers > >> Nic > >> > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > >> "MacVisionaries" group. > >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email > >> tomacvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > >> For more options, visit this group at > >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > >> > > > > > > > > Have a great day, > > Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) > > mehg...@gmail.com > > > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "MacVisionaries" group. > > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email > > tomacvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email > tomacvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email > tomacvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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