Space Bar in Mail
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Hello and welcome to the forum! 
You really need to provide much more information: 1) Mac model & year; 2) OS X installed; 3) When did the problem start?; 4) Does it occur w/ all of your emails or possibly ones w/ special formatting and/or from the same source? and 5) Does the spacebar work properly in other apps, such as TextEdit, Notes, etc.?
For starters, I would suggest 'Force Closing' the Mail App, then reopen to see if the behavior is corrected (open the Apple menu and select 'Force Quit' - pick Mail) - good luck and please post back your responses - Dave
You really need to provide much more information: 1) Mac model & year; 2) OS X installed; 3) When did the problem start?; 4) Does it occur w/ all of your emails or possibly ones w/ special formatting and/or from the same source? and 5) Does the spacebar work properly in other apps, such as TextEdit, Notes, etc.?For starters, I would suggest 'Force Closing' the Mail App, then reopen to see if the behavior is corrected (open the Apple menu and select 'Force Quit' - pick Mail) - good luck and please post back your responses - Dave
Space Bar
OK--I am on Mavericks 10.9.1 with my iMac; lots of memory, lots of storage. This space bar behavior just started. I did restart, then restarted from my backup clone. Same result. So I deleted the Mail client and restored it by reinstalling Mavericks.
The space bar still goes to the next message in line. The issue came to light when I was trying to fill a form that had been emailed to me. I clicked on the "response" window and could type letters but as soon as I needed a space--Bang--out of the form and into the next message.
The space bar works normally for other applications, such as Word, Excel, and even the Thunderbird mail client. I have looked into the Keyboard Settings screen but there does not seem to be anything there that could be triggered by just the space bar.
Am I doomed to using Thunderbird?
OK--I am on Mavericks 10.9.1 with my iMac; lots of memory, lots of storage. This space bar behavior just started. I did restart, then restarted from my backup clone. Same result. So I deleted the Mail client and restored it by reinstalling Mavericks.
The space bar still goes to the next message in line. The issue came to light when I was trying to fill a form that had been emailed to me. I clicked on the "response" window and could type letters but as soon as I needed a space--Bang--out of the form and into the next message.
The space bar works normally for other applications, such as Word, Excel, and even the Thunderbird mail client. I have looked into the Keyboard Settings screen but there does not seem to be anything there that could be triggered by just the space bar.
Am I doomed to using Thunderbird?
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chas_m
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Ah! So the problem is that you're trying to fill in a form "inline" in Mail rather than actually composing a reply. I think that's the root of the problem: you can't actually do that.
The form came as an attachment, right? Try dragging the attachment to the desktop or saving it somewhere else and open it in the right program for filling out the form -- if it's a PDF then you need Acrobat Pro (expensive!) or PDFPen (less expensive!) or possibly Preview will let you do this (haven't tried that, but at least it's free).
The form came as an attachment, right? Try dragging the attachment to the desktop or saving it somewhere else and open it in the right program for filling out the form -- if it's a PDF then you need Acrobat Pro (expensive!) or PDFPen (less expensive!) or possibly Preview will let you do this (haven't tried that, but at least it's free).
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