Need help managing that Preview Pane?

Posted February 5th, 2008 at 5:52 pm by HuongT
Categories: All-New Mail, General, Tips & Tutorials

Thanks to the magic of recent polling, it looks like many of you are using the All-New Yahoo! Mail. The tip I wanted to go over will be focused toward you guys, but maybe some of you Classic users will be compelled to give New Mail another try after learning this.One of the most popular features in the All-New Mail is the Preview Pane. When you click on a message in your inbox, it loads automatically in the window just below. This can be an amazing time saver if you are reviewing a lot of messages.

Anyway, some folks may not like the size of their Preview Pane. Maybe it’s not big enough to get a good look at some of the fancier emails you receive. Maybe it’s too big and keeps you from seeing a preferred number of messages in your inbox. Maybe still you just don’t want it at all, but still like the other aspects of All-New Mail.

I have good news for anyone in one of those three categories, because you can resize your Preview Pane anywhere from small … to giant … to non-existent. Just look for the three little dots at the center of the bar dividing the two sections. If you mouse over it you’ll see that you can click and drag it up or down, depending on how you want your space arranged.

If that still doesn’t tickle your fancy, and you actually want to get rid of the Preview Pane, you can do this by clicking on the View button just above the Inbox. The last option of the drop-down enables and disables the Preview Pane. You advanced users can even do this by using the “v” keyboard shortcut.