On Mar 20, 2025, at 9:15?PM, Bev in TX via groups.io <countryone77@...> wrote:

Please read this entire message before changing any settings.

The part that you don't want to see is the preview pane.??The preview pane is useful for seeing entire messages while quickly moving through the message list.??Alternatively, you can double click on messages to view them in a separate window.

It looks to me like you are using standard layout with bottom preview.??If so, you should see both "Show Column Layout" unchecked and "Show Side Preview" in the View menu.??If the preview pane is taking up too much vertical real estate, one alternative would be to switch to side preview. (View -> Show Side Preview).??OTOH, if you want to entirely get rid of the preview pane, then read on.

You can resize the message list and preview panes.??If you look closely, you will see a very fine line separating the two panes.??If you hover the cursor over that line, a different cursor will appear.??It has two vertical lines close together with a two headed vertical arrow in its middle.??On my Mac it's very sensitive, so you may need to try several times before you see it.??You can use that cursor to drag that line down (making the message list pane bigger) and up (making the preview pane bigger).??If you drag that cursor all the way to the bottom of the Mail window, then you make the preview pane go away. However, if you do so and later want to restore the preview pane then it may be very difficult to do so.??For that reason, it might be best to drag the cursor almost to the bottom, rather than all of the way.

If you do move it all of the way to the bottom, then the following is how to restore it at a later date.

Carefully move the mouse pointer along the bottom edge of the mail window. ?As you move the cursor it will change to a double ended arrow or a ?horizontal bar with a up facing arrow. ?When the horizontal bar+arrow appears, click and drag up. ?Your preview pane should reappear.??This can be very finicky.??Some folks find this impossible to do, and end up having to remove their mail preferences file to restore the preview pane.??Of course, deleting that file??also removes all other Mail configurations.??This is the reason I recommend not entirely closing the preview pane.

The same thing works when using side preview, except that the cursor is a vertical bar with a left facing arrow and the drag is from the right side.