Can I set the escape key to close messages?

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Can I set the escape key to close messages?

I'm really missing this feature from Windows - hitting escape to close messages. Is there a setting I can change, or something clever I can do, to enable this? Thanks!

iMac 27", Mac OS X (10.6.5), Mac beginner!

Posted on Nov 15, 2010 12:25 PM

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Answer 1

Nov 16, 2010 12:05 AM in response to MargoY

I don't think you can do that. If you go to your keyboard settings in System Preferences, you can define new keyboard shortcuts for Mail. You can define one for the command "Close," (which you can already get via the CMD + W combination, by the way) but it doesn't want to allow you to define a keyboard shortcut that consists solely of pressing the ESC key. But you can do CTRL + ESC, for instance, in case that's good enough for you...

Hope this helps

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leroydouglas

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Nov 16, 2010 12:29 AM in response to MargoY

Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts

Switch 101: On Windows, I used to...

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MargoY Author

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Nov 16, 2010 4:55 AM in response to MargoY

Thanks both - command + W is a perfectly acceptable alternative) and having a list of the others is great!

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