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Q: Highlight text & remove in Mail

Can someone please tell me if there is an easy way to highlight text in Mail, Version 9.3 (3124). Isn't there an icon you can click on?

I have done it the long way by adding it to Font > Styles > Favourite Styles but this long way seems a bit archaic for Apple.

 

Also, I have not figured out how to remove a highlight or to stop highlighting for further text when typing an email.

MacBook Pro with Retina display

Posted on Jun 28, 2016 7:29 AM

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  • by dialabrain,

    dialabrain dialabrain Jul 4, 2016 1:28 AM in response to megabytes
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    Jul 4, 2016 1:28 AM in response to megabytes

    Thanks. Things have changed since 2012 but I do appreciate your effort. Seeing Mail completely destroyed my Gmail account I have no emails to highlight.

  • by dianeoforegon,

    dianeoforegon dianeoforegon Jul 4, 2016 11:28 AM in response to dialabrain
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    Jul 4, 2016 11:28 AM in response to dialabrain

    I don't want to start trying to fix your email issues in this post, but I do suggest that your problems can be addressed. Gmail in particular is difficult to setup correctly in any email client. It's non-standard IMAP.

     

    As to the emails that were supposedly deleted, I have found that when I used MailTabPro for Gmail, it failed to delete all my messages even when I moved to the Trash.


    FYI...Deleting a message in your browser will not delete the message. It simply moves it from Inbox to All Mail. To really delete, you have to move the message to the Trash.


    See this article on using Gmail in Outlook. I go over the basics of how Gmail works and how to make the correct setting in your browser. Once you clean up your labels, see the second article on how to use Gmail in Apple Mail starting with OS X Mavericks.


    Connect Outlook for Mac 2011 to Gmail’s IMAP service

     

    Use Gmail with Mavericks Mail

     

    (Fair disclosure: Needhelp4Mac & OfficeforMacHelp are my site. I may receive some form of compensation, financial or otherwise, from links on my site.)

  • by dialabrain,

    dialabrain dialabrain Jul 4, 2016 11:58 AM in response to dianeoforegon
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    Jul 4, 2016 11:58 AM in response to dianeoforegon

    dianeoforegon wrote:

     

    I don't want to start trying to fix your email issues in this post, but I do suggest that your problems can be addressed. Gmail in particular is difficult to setup correctly in any email client. It's non-standard IMAP.

     

    Diane, first I want to thank you for replying. I have been using Gmail through the web interface for something on the order of 10 years without issue. The only reason I tried adding Gmail to Mail was to see if it behaved differently than the one AOL mail account I had set up to test Mail. Unfortunately when I did that my emails were sorted into different categories than they were originally Out of frustration and not looking forward to moving everything back into place I deleted all the email I had in Gmail. A decision I soon regretted. It comes from being lazy.

     

    Thanks again but at this point there is nothing to "fix".

    Happy 4th.

  • by dianeoforegon,

    dianeoforegon dianeoforegon Jul 4, 2016 12:01 PM in response to megabytes
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    Jul 4, 2016 12:01 PM in response to megabytes

    FYI,,,, when you use black it turns the text to white.

     

    When upgrading or moving to a new Mac, your settings for styles are stored in your User's Library.

     

    ~/Library/Saved Application State/com.apple.TextEdit.savedState

    ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.TextEdit/Data/Library/Preferences/com.apple.TextEdit.plist

  • by dianeoforegon,

    dianeoforegon dianeoforegon Jul 4, 2016 12:04 PM in response to dialabrain
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    Jul 4, 2016 12:04 PM in response to dialabrain

    If you have Time Machine you could restore the Gmail data and upload back to the server.

     

    I prefer Gmail in my browser as well. It's the account I use for "other" email like newsletters, subscriptions or anything that might result in spam. I like to keep these types of emails away from my business & personal emails. Gmail's spam filter is wonderful.

  • by dialabrain,

    dialabrain dialabrain Jul 4, 2016 12:23 PM in response to dianeoforegon
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    Jul 4, 2016 12:23 PM in response to dianeoforegon

    dianeoforegon wrote:

     

    If you have Time Machine you could restore the Gmail data and upload back to the server.

    I do have Time Machine backups but the total time it took for me to add the Gmail account to Mail, download messages then delete the Gmail account from Mail took maybe 10-15 mins so I'm not sure Time Machine would have had time to back up the account. On the off chance it did, which folder would I restore?

     

    Thanks again.

  • by Eric Root,

    Eric Root Eric Root Jul 4, 2016 1:29 PM in response to dialabrain
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    Jul 4, 2016 1:29 PM in response to dialabrain
    User Library/Mail.
  • by dialabrain,

    dialabrain dialabrain Jul 4, 2016 1:35 PM in response to Eric Root
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    Jul 4, 2016 1:35 PM in response to Eric Root

    Thanks Eric. I was hoping for something more specific relating to a Gmail account. However, after doing an extensive search on my backup drive I didn't see anything promising which is what I suspected. The Gmail account in Mail didn't exist long enough to be backed up by TM.

  • by dianeoforegon,

    dianeoforegon dianeoforegon Jul 4, 2016 1:49 PM in response to dialabrain
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    Jul 4, 2016 1:49 PM in response to dialabrain

    You can enter Time Machine while in the Mail interface to recover or you can restore from Time Machine via the User's Library.

     

    You can just restore the account. In V3 look for the folder that has [Gmail].mbox

     

    gmail.png

  • by dialabrain,

    dialabrain dialabrain Jul 4, 2016 4:21 PM in response to dianeoforegon
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    Jul 4, 2016 4:21 PM in response to dianeoforegon

    Thanks again diane. That's the info I was looking for. Unfortunately as I suspected I added the Gmail account to Mail, and removed it before TM had a chance to back it up.

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