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Resizing Email Response Window

Recently when I reply to an email the response window opens up full size. I can’t seem to find a way to downsize it so I can still see the email I’m responding to. Is there a way to do this?

iMac 21.5″, macOS 10.14

Posted on Apr 19, 2021 8:49 AM

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Posted on Apr 19, 2021 11:43 AM

  • If you can’t access the green resize button because it is off screen, just click on the window you want resized and then navigate to the Window menu and pull down to ‘Zoom’. This will automatically resize the active window to fit on the screen.
  • Finally, another option is to grab any portion of the window you can and hold down OPTION+SHIFT keys and drag, which will resize the window in any direction

Another option is to temporarily switch the display resolution to smaller than you’d typically use, since that resizes onscreen windows to fit the new screen resolution. This is possible from the  Apple menu > System Preferences > Display section of settings.


https://osxdaily.com/2010/07/05/how-to-resize-a-window-that-is-too-big-or-off-screen-in-mac-os/

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Apr 19, 2021 11:43 AM in response to barbara67

  • If you can’t access the green resize button because it is off screen, just click on the window you want resized and then navigate to the Window menu and pull down to ‘Zoom’. This will automatically resize the active window to fit on the screen.
  • Finally, another option is to grab any portion of the window you can and hold down OPTION+SHIFT keys and drag, which will resize the window in any direction

Another option is to temporarily switch the display resolution to smaller than you’d typically use, since that resizes onscreen windows to fit the new screen resolution. This is possible from the  Apple menu > System Preferences > Display section of settings.


https://osxdaily.com/2010/07/05/how-to-resize-a-window-that-is-too-big-or-off-screen-in-mac-os/

Apr 19, 2021 10:31 AM in response to barbara67

And a second click on the Green dot just brings it back to still too large?


Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at startup), does the problem occur in Safe Mode? Could take 10 minutes.


Safe mode attempts to repair Disks & clears lots of caches & loads safe Drivers, & prevents loading of 3rd party extensions, so if Safe Mode works try again in regular boot.

Resizing Email Response Window

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