replying to messages in yahoo mail

this is the sort of tidbits you will get in the forthcoming audio course, 
JFW and the Feal Word Web which is now in production.
To reply to a message, hit the reply button.  I find that sometimes I am 
obligated to left-click on the button; hitting enter does not work.  This 
seems to be the first time per session I want to access it.

Once in the reply screen, with forms mode off, hit H for heading. then down 
arrow.  There will be one link and one line of text.  The two lines are 
"plain text" and "color and graphics."  the one that is not a link is the 
choice currently in effect.  For easiest results, if plain text is not in 
effect, hit enter on that link.  then hit F to get to the to: field and go 
from there.  you will easily find the original message text as an edit field.

If for some reason you want to send an html message, you can do so.  Color 
and graphics will be in effect.  First, hit insert-V and then i and ensure 
that inline frames are shown.  They are seldom necessary, but in this 
instance, if they are not shown, you can't see or edit the message.

Once you have exited the verbosity dialog, (and if you are going to do this 
often, and if your default is not to show inline frames, then you will 
actually want to personalize the page with shift-insert-v,) use f to get to 
the subject line and hit enter to turn forms mode on.  Now tab.  You will 
most likely hear 'frame,' and will not be able to up and down arrow through 
the original message text, but if you use left and right arrows, or augment 
them with the ctrl key,  you can examine it painstakingly.  You can use 
ctrl+a to select it for deletion.  You can always examine your creation in 
the frame with forms mode off.

Above that frame are links to set various html options.  Some of them yield 
no feedback, such as attempting to change font size.  These are OnMouseOver 
elements, and I suspect that hovering the mouse over them causes a change 
even though JFW reports that no page change occurs.  Clicking on other 
links in that series causes a new frame to open.  For instance, if you want 
to build a list, you can left-click on the type of list you want to open.

As you can see, by far the preferred choice for most of us will be to 
ensure that plain text is in effect when we reply.

Dean


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