Revert Behavior of PageUP/PageDown Keys in Mail 9.0

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Revert Behavior of PageUP/PageDown Keys in Mail 9.0

Hello Community,

Anyone here who has the clue how to revert the behavior of the Page Up und Down Keys in Apple Mail like it was in 10.10? Before El Capitan I was able to go thru my mail list using the cursor key up and down, and scroll the content of the mail with page up and down. Perfect, as you don't need to use the mouse if you are checking hundreds of mails in one folder. Now page up and down are paging the email list and not the content. A disaster as I now need to use the mouse to scroll the mail content ... any idea how to revert it or has someone another shortcut to scroll the mail body?

Best Regards

Markus Mueller-Heidelberg

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch,Early 2015), OS X El Capitan (10.11)

Posted on Oct 5, 2015 7:09 AM

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Answer 1

Oct 5, 2015 7:16 AM in response to Markus Müller-Heidelberg

I can't answer your exact question because I don't have page up/page down keys on my keyboard, but if you hold down the option key while using the arrow keys I think you'll get the results you expect.

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Answer 2

Oct 5, 2015 7:20 AM in response to Joseph Delaney

Hi Joseph,

thanks for your reply. Unfortunatly this not what I looked for. Option Key plus Arrow Keys are moon the end of the mail body, which is better as nothing, but I need to page thru the mail body.

Best Regards

Markus

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Answer 3

Oct 5, 2015 7:48 AM in response to Markus Müller-Heidelberg

Sorry about that - I tried with a message that was only 2 screens long, so didn't notice the difference.

Hit tab, that puts the focus on the message. Then use the arrow keys to scroll line-by-line. Hit tab again to cycle through the interface until you get back to the message list (I think it goes message list --> message body --> search --> mailbox pane --> message list )

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Answer 4

Oct 5, 2015 7:55 AM in response to Joseph Delaney

and of course, shift-tab goes backwards.

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Answer 5

Oct 5, 2015 8:19 AM in response to Joseph Delaney

Thanks! Yes, this is working. It is still much more to do as before, and I'm wondering why Apple has changed the behavior, but it is much faster as using the mouse. 😉

Best Regards

Markus

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