Neil, You rarely need to use the mouse to move things. There's a perfectly good Move item in the context menu for each message if you want to move it to a different folder, which you get with vo-shift-m. For installing apps, open them in finder, copy to clipboard with cmd-c, move to your apps folder with cmd-shift-a and paste them in with cmd-v.
Your key for reordering is vo-shift-backslash, but I find it equally effective to read mail in order with threaded view, or simply work up the list rather than down it. I also find that when I go into a mailbox, I'm on the last message I viewed, not at the end of the list. Your home key is fn-left, end is fn-right, page up is fn-up and page down is fn-down. But holding option-up or option-down for a second or two gets you to the top or bottom of a list in mail. Cheers Dave On 1 Nov 2010, at 19:07, Neil Barnfather - TalkNav wrote: > Hi all, > > a few questions for you... I've now made the switch fully over, having bought > a Mac Book Pro 15in with the i7 processor and the iMac 27in i7 processor for > my desktop. > > so we're PC free now here! > > I'm doing well for the most part, with some good help from a few friends who > are recent converts. > > a few Mail specific questions please: > > firstly, what it the Voice Over command to invert the displayed items in Mail > for example, i.e. the default layout is oldest message at the top newest at > the bottom. I wish to see the newest at the top of the list. > > next, I've had a sighted person make the above changes for a few of the inbox > views, but not all of them, for those which have been done, the annoying > thing is that when I launch Mail the highlighted item is always at the bottom > of the dam list, thus I have to arrow up through the entire list to get to > the top. firstly, what is the VO command to jump to the beginning or end of a > list... On my Mac Book pro there is no page up / down, or seems not to be! > secondly, is there a way of having Mail launch and switch from mailbox to > mailbox always keeping at the last highlighted item or top of the list rather > than bottom? > > next, how can I delete or remove the pre-view panel entirely? I've reduced it > to 0% so it cannot be seen, but still as I arrow through the mail each item > becomes no-longer marked as new mail. meaning that the pre-view pain has in > effect marked it. > > finally, How do you effect a mouse button press and hold, for the purpose of > moving items say as with installing apps etc. > > many thanks and sorry for the list. > > Neil Barnfather. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@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. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@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.
