Sorting through Inbox in Entourage

When I am looking at messages in the inbox and choose to delete one it then
highlights the prvious message. I want it to highlight the next message and
cannot figure out how to do this through the menu or preferences. Help!

Mickey
Fri Dec 07 09:30:32 PST 2007

Try these keyboard shortcuts:

Option + Command (Apple) + [ Delete the current message and display the
previous message.

Option + Command (Apple) + ] Delete the current message and display the
next message.

On 12/7/07 10:52 AM, in article
B97AD0F4-C1FA-4633-B7F3-50F4642833B1@microsoft.com, "FatBoy95"
<FatBoy95@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> When I am looking at messages in the inbox and choose to delete one it then
> highlights the prvious message. I want it to highlight the next message and
> cannot figure out how to do this through the menu or preferences. Help!

--
Mickey Stevens (Microsoft MVP for Office:mac)
Office & Mac Resources: <http://home.earthlink.net/~mickey.stevens/>

jtimleck
Fri Dec 07 16:39:40 PST 2007

Yes, But I don't think that's what the user - or I for that matter
want to do - can we not change something (even in the coding through
terminal) that changes the default, next selected item. This has
annoyed me for almost 4 years - it's kind of "illogical" as you would
expect it to "delete down" no? (or maybe there is an interface
convention I don't know about???)

Thank

On Dec 7, 12:30 pm, Mickey Stevens <mickey.stev...@mvps.org> wrote:
> Try these keyboard shortcuts:
>
> Option + Command (Apple) + [ Delete the current message and display the
> previous message.
>
> Option + Command (Apple) + ] Delete the current message and display the
> next message.
>
> On 12/7/07 10:52 AM, in article
> B97AD0F4-C1FA-4633-B7F3-50F464283...@microsoft.com, "FatBoy95"
>
> <FatBo...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > When I am looking at messages in the inbox and choose to delete one it then
> > highlights the prvious message. I want it to highlight the next message and
> > cannot figure out how to do this through the menu or preferences. Help!
>
> --
> Mickey Stevens (Microsoft MVP for Office:mac)
> Office & Mac Resources: <http://home.earthlink.net/~mickey.stevens/>

William
Fri Dec 07 17:16:55 PST 2007

jtimleck@mac.com wrote:
> Yes, But I don't think that's what the user - or I for that matter
> want to do - can we not change something (even in the coding through
> terminal) that changes the default, next selected item. This has
> annoyed me for almost 4 years - it's kind of "illogical" as you would
> expect it to "delete down" no? (or maybe there is an interface
> convention I don't know about???)
>
> On Dec 7, 12:30 pm, Mickey Stevens <mickey.stev...@mvps.org> wrote:
>> Try these keyboard shortcuts:
>>
>> Option + Command (Apple) + [ Delete the current message and display the
>> previous message.
>>
>> Option + Command (Apple) + ] Delete the current message and display the
>> next message.

Unfortunately, Mickey's suggestion is the only viable alternative. The
default and only behavior of the Delete button is to behave the way it
does. The keyboard command to delete and display the next read is the
only way of doing what you're asking.

Please be sure to let Microsoft know you'd like to see this feature in
future versions by using the Help --> Send Feedback mechanism in any
Office application.

--

bill

William M. Smith, Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows
Entourage Help Page <http://entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>

Ed
Fri Dec 07 18:31:24 PST 2007

What sort order do you have for your inbox? I have mine sorted with the most
recent messages at the top, and when I delete a message Entourage moves up
to the next message.


On 12/7/07 8:16 PM ET, "William Smith" <mecklists@REM0VETH1S.comcast.net>
wrote:

> jtimleck@mac.com wrote:
>> Yes, But I don't think that's what the user - or I for that matter
>> want to do - can we not change something (even in the coding through
>> terminal) that changes the default, next selected item. This has
>> annoyed me for almost 4 years - it's kind of "illogical" as you would
>> expect it to "delete down" no? (or maybe there is an interface
>> convention I don't know about???)
>>
>> On Dec 7, 12:30 pm, Mickey Stevens <mickey.stev...@mvps.org> wrote:
>>> Try these keyboard shortcuts:
>>>
>>> Option + Command (Apple) + [ Delete the current message and display the
>>> previous message.
>>>
>>> Option + Command (Apple) + ] Delete the current message and display the
>>> next message.
>
> Unfortunately, Mickey's suggestion is the only viable alternative. The
> default and only behavior of the Delete button is to behave the way it
> does. The keyboard command to delete and display the next read is the
> only way of doing what you're asking.
>
> Please be sure to let Microsoft know you'd like to see this feature in
> future versions by using the Help --> Send Feedback mechanism in any
> Office application.