Okay, strange but true. We are close on this one. Using standard view in Mac Mail Mountain Lion I have been able to get the vertical bar to collapse. This doesn't, however, prevent the entire message from being read. Any other thoughts?
Thx, Jeff On 2012-08-13, at 11:14 AM, Tim Kilburn <kilbur...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Try the following. > > 1. Removing the Preview Pane in Classic layout: > > • Navigate to the Horizontal Splitter that is to the right of the Messages > table. > • Press VO-cmd-f5 (add FN if needed). This will bring the mouse to the VO > cursor and announce where the mouse is and it should read "Horizontal > Splitter". > • Double-click on your Trackpad or alternatively, you can press near the top > of the Trackpad and drag to the bottom. Make sure in this case that you > actually make the Trackpad button depress so that the drag action will work. > > 2. Removing the Preview Pane for non-Classic layout: > > • Navigate to the Vertical Splitter just to the right of the Messages Column > Group. > • Press VO-cmd-f5 (add FN if necessary) to bring the mouse to the VO cursor. > It will announce Vertical Splitter if it did what it was supposed to do. > • Double-click on the Trackpad or alternatively, put your finger near the > left hand side of the Trackpad, then drag to the far right and release. As > in the first case, make sure that you depress the Trackpad button so that the > dragging process will occur. > > Note that in the Classic layout, you are dealing with a Horizontal Splitter > and in the non-Classic layout, you are dealing with a Vertical Splitter. Each > case requires a different dragging direction if you choose that option. > > There are a couple of ways of determining if it worked. Firstly, you can > navigate around the Mail screen and if you don't hear anything about "Message > Content Area", life is good. > > The second method is a little more complicated but tells you for sure. In > Classic layout, navigate to the Horizontal Splitter to the right of the "New > Mailbox Action" menu. You'll notice two Horizontal splitters, one after the > Messages Table and this one that I'm talking about. Once you've located this > Horizontal Splitter, Interact with it and press VO-down. Vo will announce > "Collapsed" which is what you want to hear. In non-Classic layout, navigate > to the Vertical Splitter just to the right of the Messages Column Group and > Interact with it. Press VO-right and VO will announce "Collapsed" if the > Preview pane is gone. > > HTH. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On 2012-08-12, at 7:16 PM, Jeff Berwick <mailingli...@berwick.name> wrote: > >> Thanks for the tip. However, I'm still not getting anyt=where. The >> horizontal bar, according to my mother-in-law, controls a pane on the left >> which has the list of mailboxes. The vertical bar seemingly does nothing. >> Any other tips? >> >> Thx, >> Jeff >> >> On 2012-08-12, at 7:43 PM, Ricardo Walker <rwalker...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> You need to do a physical mouse click on the bar with your trackpad with >>> trackpad commander turned off or, with a mouse. >>> >>> hth >>> >>> Ricardo Walker >>> rica...@appletothecore.info >>> Twitter:@apple2thecore >>> www.appletothecore.info >>> >>> On Aug 12, 2012, at 7:02 PM, Jeff Berwick <mailingli...@berwick.name> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I know this has been covered, but I had already accomplished this in Lion >>>> and, when I upgraded to ML, it just worked. Now I have purchased a new >>>> computer and get get rid of the preview pane. What am I missing? >>>> >>>> I go to the Mail program and go over to the horizontal bar and interact. >>>> I then set the percentage to 0% but it doesn't seem to go away. 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