Mail.app keyboard navigation

While navigating a UI using solely the keyboard may seem like basic stuff to some of you, the truth is that a good many computer users on all platforms are not even aware that this functionality exists. For those users trying to learn the in's and out's of moving around their Mac with the keyboard, Hawk Wings has a neat little tutorial on navigating Mail.app with the keyboard.

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Source: http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/10/03/moving-around-mailapp-us…

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While navigating a UI using solely the keyboard may seem like basic stuff to some of you, the truth is that a good many computer users on...

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Mag

This tutorial has indeed stuff many users weren't aware of.

October 12 2006 at 7:07 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

George K.

One keyboard combo I would LOVE to have is one that takes you to the first message in a mailbox. When I change sorting, or after I do a search, I often want to get back to the first message in my Inbox, which being sorted by date means the most recent message.

The only way to do it by keyboard is one message at a time, with the arrow key.

October 11 2006 at 6:45 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

John from Buffalo

Checking your mail with keyboard combinations and learning how to navigate SpotLight in combination with general power user skills will make using a Mac all that much more fun. Up until know with the introduction of the Intel line, OS X has been painful to use with respect to how fast _I_ move with the slowness of Spotlight. However ..... Intel line chips have speeded up general operational uses of the Mac to get shit done. Rock on power users.

October 11 2006 at 9:28 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply