Hi All,

How do you move from the message list to the body of an email in the 
Windows 8.1 Mail program, without having to tab through a lot of other 
stuff?

After much swearing and experimenting, I managed to get my Exchange 
account working in the Windows 8.1 Mail program. For whatever reason,I 
haven't gotten it to work correctly in Thunderbird. I'm okay with that 
for now though I'll probably keep trying.

Anyway, I'm not familiar with Windows Mail, so I don't think I'm using 
it very efficiently. There seems to be a list of folders. Pressing enter 
on, say, Inbox puts me in a list of messages (I.e., I hear the sender, 
subject, and date). When I get to a message I want to read, I need to 
tab past a few controls, like New and Reply, plus buttons for anyone the 
message is copied to, to get to the body of the message. Using shift+tab 
to get to the same place isn't any quicker because I move past things 
like Search and filters. According to the official Windows shortcut 
list, I should be able to press ctrl+o to open the message in a new 
window, but neither that nor simply pressing enter seems to be working, 
so I'm thinking I'm missing something obvious. I also tried pressing F6 
and ctrl+tab to find out if one or the other would move me closer.

Any tips?

Ciao


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