Hi,
Are you pressing VO-Backslash on the Conversation column?
I am doing the same here and have no problems expanding or collapsing 
conversations.

On Jul 26, 2012, at 10:17 AM, Harry Hogue <harryhog...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, Tim,
> 
> i didn't notice a difference with the slider set to 100 percent, but what I 
> did was to go into mail and say "expand all conversations," and at the moment 
> that is making life easier.  At least I don't have to fight with it to expand 
> and collapse messages.  I hope this helps someone else who may be struggling.
> 
> Harry
> 
> On Jul 26, 2012, at 8:02 AM, Tim Kilburn <kilbur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Even with the Preview pane gone, VO will read a couple lines of your message 
>> due to the Conversation view.  I simply press enter/return on the message to 
>> open it and cmd-w to close the conversation.
>> 
>> To get rid of the Preview pane, you need to move the Vertical Slider just to 
>> the right of the Message Content area.  It needs to be moved all the way to 
>> the right so that VO reads 100% and sometimes it will say closed disclosure 
>> item.  I previously posted that simply moving it would do the trick in ML 
>> but experienced a few frustrations with that method last evening on my iMac. 
>>  The other method is double-clicking on this Vertical Slider, it must be the 
>> physical mouse click, not the virtual one through VO.  I will investigate a 
>> little further to try to find a more reliable and efficient way of doing it 
>> with VO.
>> 
>> Later...
>> 
>> Tim Kilburn
>> Fort McMurray, AB Canada
>> 
>> On 2012-07-25, at 11:53 PM, Harry Hogue <harryhog...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> How do you close the preview pane?  That could be an interesting way to go 
>>> about it, but I also rather like seeing a preview of the message before I 
>>> read it.
>>> 
>>> Harry
>>> 
>>> On Jul 25, 2012, at 10:38 PM, Steve Holmes <steve.holme...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> When I use Mail, I have the preview pane completely closed so for me to 
>>>> open messages individually or a whole thread, I use Command-O to open a 
>>>> new window and Command-W to close and return me to the message list.  I 
>>>> did this in Lion and I still do it in Mountain Lion.
>>>> 
>>>> On Jul 25, 2012, at 9:36 PM, Harry Hogue <harryhog...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I just noticed that when expanding mail messages with VO-space bar, 
>>>>> sometimes the focus is in the wrong place, apparently, and it opens up 
>>>>> the "sort by menu" where you are able to sort by attachments, date, from, 
>>>>> etc.  So far, my only complaint is that they took the expand mail 
>>>>> messages keystroke away for VoiceOver; I find this new one to be a bit 
>>>>> awkward.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Other than that, it's really pretty nice.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Harry
>>>>> 
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