Hello Christine, Not that this will help you now but, this problem has been well documented with Apple developers.
Based on my experience with reporting Mail bugs, it can take up to an entire release version in order to resolve these kinds of things. I'm not saying it will take to next year for this to be fixed but, based only on my personal experience, I wouldn't expect a fix until 10.14 or Mac OS 11. This is one of the reasons why I have not updated to High Sierra on my primary Mac Partition. Mark -----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Christine Grassman Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2017 7:30 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: What on earth did I do??? Mail is driving me crazy I absolutely cannot edit in email, though I can edit fine in Text Edit or Pages. The cursor is never where it is supposed to be. I try to backspace or fix a typo, and I am never where I wish to be. Even if I interact and VoiceOver reads word by word, I am never on, or even before or after, the word being spoken. This is phenomenally frustrating, as I am constantly deleting the entire contents, writing emails elsewhere, thencutting and pasting. One think of note that might be relevant is that when I erase the entire contents, and am in the edit field, VoiceOver says “Empty Group” which I have never heard before in this context. Christine -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: macvisionaries+modera...@googlegroups.com and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: macvisionaries+modera...@googlegroups.com and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.