Hi Kawal,
Users who are interested in Sharp Keys for remapping keys in Windows
under Fusion can download it free from randyrants.com:
http://www.randyrants.com/sharpkeys/
As for your mail question, Apple Mail has an Address Panel that can be
toggled between show and hide with Command-Option-A, which brings up
an Addresses window. This is an abbreviated form of your Address Book
that only displays the Name and Email address of entries. If you want
to search for an individual, press Command-Option-F (which is a
general Mac OS X shortcut for moving to the search text field of an
application -- works in Finder, iTunes, the main Mail Message Viewer
window, System Preferences, and many other places). Then type in your
search letter or letters. However, the matches will not be confined
to last names. For example, typing "K e n" will get you matches to
both names like "Kenneth Smith" and "Joe Kennedy". You can tab to the
table of matches, and then use your up and down arrows to find the
person you want. Then you can tab to the "To:" or "Cc:" or "Bcc:"
buttons (depending on which fields you have configured to be shown in
your mail preferences), and press (VO-Space) the button to add your
selected name to the corresponding mail field.
I'm assuming you haven't created different groups yet, and are not
trying to search for names only in a specific group, so your group
table selection is set to "All" by default. If you have created
groups, and want to search for names only within a certain group,
after showing the Address Panel, tab to the group table and use your
up and down arrow keys to highlight your selected group, then use
Command-Option-F to go to the search text field and type in your
letters, and proceed as before. Toggle the Address Panel off when
you're done with Command-Option-A again or close the window with
Command-W.
You can also add the sender of an email that you are reading or have
highlighted in your Messages Table to your Address Panel with the
shortcut Command-Shift-Y. (This is one of the menu options in the
Message menu on the Mail menu bar). This is actually one of the
easiest ways to start an entry for someone (who you then add contact
and address information for) in your Address Book. Another helpful
option is to go to the "Window" menu on the Mail menu bar (VO-M, then
press "W" and arrow down) and navigate to the "Previous Recipients".
This will bring up a window with a list of everyone you have sent an
email to. Again, you can either search the list or just VO-Right
arrow and interact with the table of names, email addresses, and
last used dates. You can select an entry, stop interacting with the
table, then VO-right arrow to the buttons for "Remove from List" or
"Add to Address Book".
Signatures are created and stored under your mail preferences. Bring
your preferences window up with Command-Comma. Either press Control-
F5 (general Mac OS X shortcut to move to the title bar) or interact
(VO-Shift-down arrow) and then tab of VO-Right Arrow to "Signatures"
and press VO-Space. Then navigate to the signature you want to edit.
Close the window with Command-W when you're done.
HTH. A really excellent source of information about mail, which
includes all the information listed above, and many tips that I've not
seen in other sources, is the Take Control guide by Joe Kissell, "Take
Control of Apple Mail in Snow Leopard":
http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/snow-leopard-apple-mail
This version revised for Snow Leopard was just released, and is
available as a downloadable PDF file (lists for $15). You can check
the web page link for more information, and for a sample download
section.
Cheers,
Esther
On 16 May 2010, at 10:19, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote:
Hi.
I don't know if anyone is interested, but I acquired a program
called sharp keys. This let's you map keys so for instance, if I'm
using jaws in fusion (as I am) as I'm using windows 7, I was able to
run that program and get an insert key and an application key to use
jaws. If anyone wants it, let me know.
I also managed to copy my contacts from Microsoft outlook to apple
mail's address book, and wish to know if I'm composing mail in Apple
mail as I find this much easier than Microsoft Outlook, how can I
check for addresses whilst composing? You can do control K in
Microsoft outlook if you are in the to field to check names if you
have typed a name beginning with A for instance and all the names
beginning with A will come up. You then choose a name by going down
the list and pressing enter. Is there such a thing in Apple mail
please?
Also, I was able to compose a signature for my Apple mail as you
will see, but now I need to edit it and I can't find how as I can't
remember how I managed to create an signature in the first place!
I'm sorry if some this message is rather window related but there is
no other way for me to explain what I want.
Kawal.
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