Mail toolbar question

Sonoran · 11-06-2009, 03:04 PM

I have decided to get away from Entourage & only use Apple Mail, iCal & Address. All is going pretty well. I have two questions about Mail:

1. I compose in Rich Text & with Entourage I always had tool buttons that would allow easy creation of bulleted list, numbered list, etc. I don't see this in Mail; even under "Cusomize Toolbar...". Does anyone know of a way to add this feature? Any third party plugins that would do this?

2. Moving through text is a hassle. In Entourage you could quickly move your cursor using Command, Right/Left arrow which is a standard word processing feature. I haven't found out a way to move around easily in Mail (or in TextEdit for that matter). Any workarounds for this?

Thanks.

styrafome · 11-06-2009, 04:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Sonoran


	1. I compose in Rich Text & with Entourage I always had tool buttons that would allow easy creation of bulleted list, numbered list, etc. I don't see this in Mail; even under "Cusomize Toolbar...". Does anyone know of a way to add this feature? Any third party plugins that would do this?

I don't know how to do this in Mail, but I just did an experiment where I used the list formatting in TextEdit and pasted into Mail and it preserved it since both apps were set to Rich Text. So composing in TextEdit is a workaround.

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Originally Posted by Sonoran


	2. Moving through text is a hassle. In Entourage you could quickly move your cursor using Command, Right/Left arrow which is a standard word processing feature. I haven't found out a way to move around easily in Mail (or in TextEdit for that matter). Any workarounds for this?

The shortcuts are not standard. They vary from app to app. Apple apps, the Adobe suite, the Microsoft suite all seem to do something different in their text editing code. I think Mail and TextEdit use the Cocoa shortcuts, where for example I can skip words with Option-right arrow instead of Command in other apps. If you're not getting what you want try changing modifier keys.

NaOH · 11-06-2009, 05:31 PM

Open a new Mail message. From the View menu, select Customize Toolbar. Drag the item named Lists to the message Toolbar then click the Done button. It should now appear whenever you are creating or replying to a message.

I tested this in Mail for 10.5, so I don't know if the option is present in 10.4 or 10.6.

11-06-2009, 03:04 PM	#1
Sonoran Triple-A Player Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 75	Mail toolbar question I have decided to get away from Entourage & only use Apple Mail, iCal & Address. All is going pretty well. I have two questions about Mail: 1. I compose in Rich Text & with Entourage I always had tool buttons that would allow easy creation of bulleted list, numbered list, etc. I don't see this in Mail; even under "Cusomize Toolbar...". Does anyone know of a way to add this feature? Any third party plugins that would do this? 2. Moving through text is a hassle. In Entourage you could quickly move your cursor using Command, Right/Left arrow which is a standard word processing feature. I haven't found out a way to move around easily in Mail (or in TextEdit for that matter). Any workarounds for this? Thanks.

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11-06-2009, 05:31 PM	#3
NaOH All Star Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 714	Open a new Mail message. From the View menu, select Customize Toolbar. Drag the item named Lists to the message Toolbar then click the Done button. It should now appear whenever you are creating or replying to a message. I tested this in Mail for 10.5, so I don't know if the option is present in 10.4 or 10.6.