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Mac 101: Change fields for creating a new Mail message

The window will morph into a full size window showing all the available options. Clicking the check boxes beside each item will allow them to appear each time you compose a new message. When you are done, click the "OK" button to save the changes.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
rado said 9:21AM on 10-01-2008
sweet
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bocaj said 12:17PM on 10-01-2008
Thanks for the tip.
Does anyone know how to toggle how many of those fields take focus when you tab through them? It used to be that tabbing would skip over the the customize, account, signature and priority drop downs, but at some point it started including them. Now I have to hit tab 5 times just to get from subject to message body.
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Dan said 4:38AM on 10-02-2008
@bocaj:
System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Keyboard Shortcuts:
At the bottom of the window is an option called "Full keyboard access."
Change this to "Text boxes and lists only" for the behavior you desire.
Justin said 11:06AM on 12-07-2008
why won't hyperlinks work!?
[a href="http://test.com"]
test!
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Mike said 2:19PM on 12-17-2008
I'm not sure where I should be asking this question, so I'll try here. In mail after you delete a msg the highlighted field moves up instead of staying in place to delete the msg below the previously deleted msg. Is there anyway to change this behavior?
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Mike said 2:23PM on 12-17-2008
assuming you are in the middle of the list of msgs that is.
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