Re: A Clarification Regarding my TrackPad Question

2010-09-22 Thread Carolyn Haas
Hi Ricardo: Well, actually I think I must have preview panes disabled. I either get the status info, or the message itself. And I rather like it that way, in spite of all the caviats about opening mail:). I'll experiment more with this and learn more. Thanks. Carolyn On Sep 22, 2010, at 11:20

Re: A Clarification Regarding my TrackPad Question

2010-09-22 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi Carolyn, Hmm, Do you have the preview pane showing in Apple Mail? I do and the gesture your doing is the jump to linked iTem gesture. When you leave your finger on the subject and press control the gesture I just mentioned is being performed. Try holding control down first without touchi

Re: A Clarification Regarding my TrackPad Question

2010-09-22 Thread Carolyn Haas
Ricardo: This is intetresting. When I have my finger on the subject on the trackpad, I press ctl and press that finger down and the email's open. Haven't seen a menu as you describe. That's the mac, all right. Full of mystery!!!:) CarolynOn Sep 22, 2010, at 10:45 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote:

Re: A Clarification Regarding my TrackPad Question

2010-09-22 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi Mark, Hope all is well with you. I have found that the only way to do what you ask is to do a control left click like Carolyn suggested. This is done by holding down the control key and pressing the bottom left corner of the trackpad. This brings up a context menu in which open is the fir

Re: A Clarification Regarding my TrackPad Question

2010-09-22 Thread Carolyn Haas
Hi Mark: Ok, I just closed and reopened your email, based on the scenario you descripbe. I have the messages status, date, received etc showing, on the trackpad. Now, I want to answer your quetion, so I find your email, based on subject, and then touch control-and-click the trackpad. Your mes

A Clarification Regarding my TrackPad Question

2010-09-22 Thread M. Taylor
Thank you Carolyn and Kevin for attempting to answer my question. I am reposting the question because i don't think I was clear in what I seek. First, lets forget about the threaded component. Second, what I want to do it to merely use the the Multi-Touch TrackPad, on my MacBook Pro to open