Mac 101: Where'd my send button go?

More Mac 101, TUAW's series for beginners. My mom called me up last week with this question about Mail: "Where did my send button go?"

Turns out she had mistakenly clicked the white chiclet (pictured) in the upper-right hand corner of her message's compose window, hiding her toolbar. When she clicked it once, Mail remembered her settings and hid the toolbar for other message windows, too.

So, just clicking that chiclet showed the toolbar again, and brought her send button back. Magic.

Also, you can hold down command and click the same chiclet to show and hide icons and text labels in the toolbar. Repeatedly clicking with the command key held down cycles through all your options.

Now that my mom is happily sending emails again, I can sleep well knowing all about the new Bob's Big Boy and the local woman who was on Survivor.

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Sandy

I don't care what it's called...chiclet or whatever, I just want to say that I'm someone's computer illiterate mom with a new MacBook who just found out why her "send" icon disappeared after happening onto this site. Make that a "grateful" mom.

September 30 2008 at 8:57 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

homan2

Noob Q, and Off topic (-2 internets for me):

Any way to force cmd-enter or ctrl-enter to send an email in mail.app (like Entourage/Outlook)?

Thanks.

September 29 2008 at 4:05 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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September 29 2008 at 4:02 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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September 29 2008 at 10:38 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

peter

the send button in mail is also grayed out if you dont have an SMTP server setup for your email account, it's fooled me a few times.
You can have SMTP servers setup - but you've gotta tie them to your actual email address.

September 29 2008 at 3:50 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jash Sayani

Nice tip. But I guess most Mac users knew this as everyone must have tried it out.

September 29 2008 at 2:48 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Nic

I always thought it was called the 'lozenge' button, 'cos that is the shape lozenges usually are. Now I realise I have been embarrassing myself for years :(

September 28 2008 at 9:49 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Rob

I wish there was a way you could DISABLE (or LOCK) this oval button.

It would reduce the number of calls I get. (ie Where did my toolbar go).

There are users who ALWAYS want the toolbar and NEVER want it to go away.

September 28 2008 at 8:46 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

grull27

If somebody really needed this tip, shame on them for being so stupid. lol

September 28 2008 at 7:09 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Robert Palmer

You're talking about my mom, so stow it, Flappy.

September 28 2008 at 10:44 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Rafe H.

Wow, what a great tip! I wish this behavior was found in other applications too, and not just Mail.app as the post suggests.

September 28 2008 at 7:06 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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