I like hiding it, for two reasons.
1. Most importantly, it gives you less screen clutter.
2. If you're coming from a windows background as I am, and on Windows,
disabled the preview payne, then you might find having it enabled on the Mac
to be a bit awquard. Each is to his/her own. If you don't want to disable
it, don't. I just thought some may could benefit from it. There is no real
particular reason you'd want to, it's just a preference.
I personally like it hidden. You, on the other hand may not.
I prefer it being like in the old days more menu style. You highlight the
message and hit return to open it, then command w to close it.
I know you can do that without hiding the payne, but again,
I dono... maybe I gave pointless info... I thought I was helping.
Sorry.
Chris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ronald McEwan" <ron.mce...@gmail.com>
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 2:03 PM
Subject: Re: Toggling Preview Payne in Mail: a how-to Tutorial
Very nice but one question. Why would you want to either hide or unhide the
preview pane?
In the Journey,
Ron
On Jun 8, 2011, at 11:32 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote:
OK, I myself and a few of my other friends have wondered how to toggle on
and off the mail preview in mail that is below the messages table using
Snow Leopard. It certainly was easier to do this in both Tiger and in
Leopard, but, here's how to do it in 10.6. A sighted friend and I have
confirmed at least five times that this consistently works regardless how
your view is set in Mail.
1. Open up Mail.
2. Be sure that you're not interacting with anything whatsoever by
pressing vo+shift+sup arrow until you hear a ding.
3. Move to the top of the screen with vo+home, or fn+vo+left arrow,
depending on your setup.
4. Vo+right arrow past your mailboxes table, then one more time to the
messages table list, and finally one more time to a horizontal splitter.
This is where the hiding magic is gonna be at.
5. Even if your mouse follows your voiceover cursor, trust me with this
as this doesn't appear consistent route your mouse pointer with
vo+command+F5. remember that you may have to also use the fn key if your
F keys are set to hardware.
6. Now, here's the trick. instead of doing like before, and double
clicking with a double vo+shift+space, you need to literally speaking
click the physical mouse. I don't mean click with a literal click through
voiceover. Even vo+shift+space... that isn't good enough. You literally
for some odd reason have to click the actual mouse or track pad. Remember
if you are on a macbook using a track pad, the track pad is set up in such
a way that different parts of it do different things. I wasn't aware of
this, until my friend told me. So, what you want to do after routing your
mouse to that horizontal splitter, is to left double click. So on a track
pad, that will need to be done by double clicking at the very bottom left
corner of the track pad. Otherwise, just reach up to the mouse and double
click the left mouse button, or the only mouse button there if you have an
external apple mouse. Now the area should be gone. Voiceover won't tell
you this right away, but trust me, if you do it right it'll work
consistently.
To turn the preview payne back on...:
1. Make sure in mail that you're again, not interacting with anything at
all.
2. Now navigate to the top left of the window with your vo+home or
fn+vo+left arrow, again depending on your setup.
3. Next, vo+right arrow until you reach the message list table. Trust me
with this.
4. Press vo+shift+down arrow to interact with the messages table scroll
area.
5. Highlight with vo+down arrow, any message in the list. It doesn't
matter which one, just so that one is selected.
6. Press vo+shift+up arrow to stop interacting with the message list
table.
7. If you now vo+right arrow, you're gonna see two horizontal splitters.
you want the second one you'll come to. A short way to get there is to do
vo+end, or fn+vo+right arrow. Basically, it's at the very bottom right
corner of the screen. Now remember from above, you ***have!*** No ifs
ands or buts to it, you have! to have a message highlighted in the message
list table. Otherwise this second horizontal splitter won't even be
there. Once you find that second horizontal splitter, do like we did a
second ago to hide the preview. So, route your mouse, vo+command+F5, plus
your fn key if needed, then again, left double click your mouse. Again,
bottom left corner, if you're on a track pad like on a macbook. Again,
Voiceover won't necessarily tell you it worked. But again, it's very
consistent. Trust me I did it about 5 times. It does work, if you do it
correctly exactly as I've told you to do it.
A very warm thanks to my friend Norma Watts for this tip.
One more thing is, by the way, when you go to unhide the preview, make
sure you have a message highlited in the message list. I can't stress
that enough. If you don't have anything in the message list as it's
empty, then a sollution would be either to find a mailbox that has some
messages populated, or if worst last resort, just e-mail yourself to make
a message pop up in the table.
The other thing is, I don't thing you have to have a message highlighted
when you're hiding the preview. Only when you're unhiding, however, just
to be on the safe side, until I figure out otherwise, it may be good
practice anyway to highlight a message first, even when hiding.
I hope this helps some of you out. YOu all're definitely welcome to post
this on any web site or blog. I have no problem with that.
Take care.
Chris.
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