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by colinsw

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I use the spacebar to scroll the text of my email messages. When it reaches the end it automatically skips to the next message, often not giving me the chance to read the last few lines. This does not happen if you use the scroll bars or have the message open in a seperate window.

While I'm currently running outlook 2000, I previously used outlook 98, which had the exact same problem. I remember sometime in the past finding out how to fix this, but I can't now find that reference.

Does anyone know how I can disable this behaviour?

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by mmdkj.family

If you press the space bar multiple times and not hold it down you have positive control over when it moves to the next message. Once all the way at the bottom of a message the next press takes you to the next message. This seems to work no matter how many lines are left unseen at the bottom. The space bar press prior to moving to the next message will always uncover the last lines to read.

Shift-Space will take you to the previous message however you go to the top.

by colinsw

Thanks for the response, but that is not the way it seems to work.

For example, if I have a message that is 2.5 screen 'pages', as i move from the second page to last page to last part page, it will skip to the mext message and i do not get to read that last half page.

by mmdkj.family

Works the way I described on mine. I double checked. Do you have Corporate/Workgroup or Internet Mail settings?

Try using the Preview Pane also.

by colinsw

Thanks for your reply. I believe I have the Internet Mail version. I wouldn't be suprised if there were some variations between the different version as I've come across similar before.

by leaslynn

I have IMO. I did a little experimenting and found I had to really tap quick and release quickly. If I held down the space bar at all, I got the behavior you described. With real quick taps, though, it did stop on the last stop in the scroll bar and I could read the whole message. HTML messages were easier to scroll through than plain text.

by colinsw

THanks for the reply. I've jujst tried tapping the spacebar at various but unfortunately it had no effect, the last few linesw of the message appeared briefly then the next message is displayed.

by colinsw

Thanks, but re my previous reply regardless of the speed of the 'tap' it does not work as you describe here.

by colinsw

Thanks for the reply.
I have tried that option and while it did did one minor unrelated problem, it did not resolve my issue.

by colinsw

Thanks for the reply.
Given the amount of email that I have to deal with, using the scroll bars would be unusually fiddley. Outlook provides the feature mentioned, I wish to use it and there is nothing else equivalent.

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