Re: OE6 keyboard shortcut for "Show/Hide Preview Pane"?

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Windows ME
OE6 SP1 6.00.2800.1123

I tried again using Left Alt+Shift+H as well as Right Alt+Shift+H. They
both bring up OE's Help menu as if I had clicked Help on the Toolbar.
I've tried this while viewing an HTML message as plain text in the
preview pane and also in its own window.

Nevans

On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 15:02:06 -0700, Michael Santovec wrote in
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As I recall, the Read in Plain Text setting was added in OE6 SP1. If
you look at Help, About it should say 6.00.2800.xxxx. And that version
is available for Win98 through Windows server 2003.

My understanding is that the ALT+Shift+H was introduced at the same
time.

There were some further changes added in XP SP2 (OE version
6.00.2900.xxxx) regarding reading in plain text such as not displaying
attached images at the bottom of the message.

Did you try the Left Alt and Shift keys? Sometimes the Right keys work
a little different.

And just to make sure how you are doing it, hold down the ALT key.
While still holding down the ALT key press the Shift key. And wile
still holding down both those keys, press the H key.

If you are using sticky keys, that could affect things. As well as
using any special keyboard utilities.

Also, while having a message selected, look in the View menu. Does it
list "Message in HTML"?

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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm

"Nevans" <nevansc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Unfortunately, I use Windows ME (mentioned in my orig. post but lost
in
the shuffle). I tried to use Alt+Shift+H but it didn't work. I
googled
and found that Alt+Shift+H apparently only became available under
WinXP
SP2. Oh well.

On Fri, 30 May 2008 22:36:10 -0700, Michael Santovec wrote in
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In that case, you could use the read in plain text, then when you get
a
message that you want to read the HTML, use ALT+Shift+H. The current
message will display the HTML and when you move to the next message
you'll be back to plain text.

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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm

"Nevans" <nevansc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sat, 31 May 2008 00:08:28 -0500, VanguardLH wrote in
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"Nevans" wrote in
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VanguardLH wrote:

Customizing the toolbar to add the Preview button would be a lot
easier.

I've had the Preview button on the toolbar for years. My mouse is
getting tired of being asked to click on that button so frequently
and
has asked me to make my keyboard do some work for a change!

Why do you need to keep toggling the preview pane so much?

I'll have to think about that one and get back to you on that!

Seriously though, I get a lot of email from subscription lists and
prefer to receive the HTML version when one is available.
Otherwise,
I'd probably turn the "read all messages in plain text" option on
and
leave the preview pane open. But instead I'm trying to avoid the
possibility of accidentally giving a "bad" HTML email a chance to do
its
dirty work.

You could define a keyboard shortcut to do the Alt+V, L, P, and
Enter.
It is not a Windows native utility. AutoHotkey is a freebie
utility
that will let you define one key combo to do all those other
keystrokes.
As I recall, you could even make that key combo only active (i.e.,
execute) within a specific application, probably by having it check
the
titlebar of the currently active window.

Thanks for the suggestion. I've heard about but never tried
AutoHotkey.
Now may be the time to give it a whirl.

(Thanks for the Alt+F4 info.)
.

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