Hi Esther, The NumPad Commander commands for "drag and drop" are "mouse up " or "mouse down" I used the slash key and star key because they are together and there original commands were not often used. Talk soon
On Mar 31, 2009, at 7:58 PM, Esther wrote: > > Hi Dan, > > In response to my instructions to create signature files by > selecting individual email accounts in mail's preference pane for > signatures, and then using the "Create new signature" button Dan > Eickmeier wrote: >> >> Ester, it would make sense to me that if you selected all accounts, >> that a signature which you'd created, would be available for any >> account? Any idea why this isn't the case? > > You need to get an answer from someone who regularly uses these mail > features instead of me, and maybe there's a simpler way to create > signatures that work for all email accounts in one step. I do know > that the only way I can get the signatures created when I select > "All Signatures" at the top of the email accounts column to work in > a specific email account is by using VoiceOver drag and drop the > names of these signatures onto individual email accounts in the > accounts column. Copy and paste doesn't work. The way the Take > Control guide describes it, you can create the signatures you want > under "All Signatures" and then drag and drop your selections into > individual email accounts. (I've done this with VoiceOver, but it's > a pain. And if anyone can tell me the descriptive name for the "VO- > Command-Shift-Space" key combination that starts and ends the "drag" > so I can use a NumPad Commander sequence, I'd love to know.) I > certainly haven't been able to find a way to generate signatures for > all email accounts at once; if you create the signatures under "All > Signatures" in the accounts column, none of the signatures show up > under individual email accounts until you drag and drop, or create > them under the selected account. > > My only thought here is that if you are using different email > accounts you may also be using different email addresses, and these > get created as part of the signature automatically, although you can > edit this. (At least, when I tried this "Signature #1" was the > default entry for the signature name, and the default entry for the > signature field was my name and email address. Both fields can be > edited.) In addition, MobileMe (which is still identified as dot > Mac in my mail preferences list), allows you to use email address > aliases. And you might want to use Professional and Informal > signatures for each mailing list that you're on, but have them use > different signature content (to go with the email address). > > The "Take Control of Apple Mail in Leopard" guide certainly gives a > lot more information than the system Help file, which reads: > > To create a signature: > Step 1. Choose Mail > Preferences, and then click Signatures. > Step 2. Create a signature. > > Sorry not to have a better answer than my instruction number 8: > >> 8. Repeat steps 3 through 6 for each email account (or use VoiceOver >> Drag and Drop to select signatures in the names column of one email >> account and drop them onto another email account in the accounts >> column). > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > > > Chuck Reichel 954-742-0019 www.SoundPictureRecording.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 to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
