Show/Hide Folder List

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Sam Elowitch

When viewing e-mail are there any ways to show/hide the folder list by means
of key combination or AppleScript instead of the View menu or the "toggle
triangle"?
 
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Paul Berkowitz

When viewing e-mail are there any ways to show/hide the folder list by means
of key combination or AppleScript instead of the View menu or the "toggle
triangle"?
Click to expand...

If you're in Panther, yes.

In OS 10.3, first go to System Preferences/Universal Access, and check
"Enable access for assistive devices."

Now run this script:

tell application "Microsoft Entourage" to activate

tell application "System Events"
tell process "Microsoft Entourage"
tell menu bar 1
tell menu title "View"-- or menu title 5
tell menu "View" -- or menu 1
click menu item "Folders List" -- or menu item 6
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell



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Travis Bell

As I just discovered, you don't need to do any of that. I am running
Entourage 10.1.4 on Panther 10.3.1.

Just hold command (apple) & 1 or 2, 3 etc... And you'll swap views. Pretty
cool stuff.
 
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Paul Berkowitz

The question was about Show/Hide the Folder List, not about swapping views.
I may just not know some trick you know, but I can't see where to do that
via any sort of key combination without the script. If you are in Mail View
with Folder List hidden, then go to Calendar - or even if you have Folder
List showing in Mail View but hide it when you get to Calendar - and then
you press cmd-1 to go back to Mail view, the Folder List will still be
hidden. You have to click on the Hide/Show button on the left (which I find
easy enough myself), or go to View menu, or run the script via the keyboard
shortcut if you set it up.

Sam wanted to hide/show the Folder List, not to switch views. If you want to
be able to do that by keyboard, you'll still need the script.
 
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Sam Elowitch

Thanks, Paul! Extremely cool. You da man.

Yet another reason to upgrade to Panther. Off-topic, I¹m also looking
forward to mucking around with ImageEvents ‹ no more passing variables and
files through GraphicConverter or Photoshop (Hallelujah!).

-Sam
 
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