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-=== Alt/Option+Click Group Selection ===
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+Group Selection acts as a quick search function. In holding down the ''Alt'' key (Windows, Linux) &ndash; ''Option'' on Mac &ndash; then clicking on a particular piece of info in a message summary (e.g. the Sender&rsquo;s name), Eudora OSE will then select all messages in that mailbox that match the particular item clicked. So, if ''Joe Smith'' was clicked, then all messages from Joe Smith will be selected and collect themselves around the clicked message, as if by magnetic attraction. The selected messages will still be in the same relative order as they previously were, just all bunched together.
-The Alt/Option+click group selection functionality that's been in Eudora for many years has been implemented in the Penelope extension.  It acts as a quick search function.  What you do is hold down the Alt key (Windows, Linux)/Option key (Mac), and then click on a a particular piece of info in a message summary (e.g. the Sender's name).  Penelope will then select all the messages in that mailbox that match the particular item clicked on (e.g. if "Joe Smith" was clicked on, then all messages from "Joe Smith" will get selected), and the messages will gravitate toward the clicked on message.  Think of it like a magnet where all messages that match are attracted to the clicked on message.  The selected messages will still be in the same relative order as they previously were, just all bunched together.
+If you ''Alt''+click on a '''Subject''', then when comparing Subjects to determine a match all '''Re:''' and '''Fwd:''' prefixes are stripped from the Subject to give a thread-like behavior to the selection.
-If you Alt+click on a Subject, then when comparing Subjects to determine a match all "Re:" and "Fwd:" prefixes are stripped from the Subject.  This is done to give a "thread like" behavior to the selection.  Penelope's stripping of these prefixes to do the comparison is a little more advanced than Thunderbird's, so you will get more matches with Penelope than with Thunderbird's threading.
+As an example, here&rsquo;s a mailbox with some messages in it:
-As an example, here's a mailbox with some messages in it:
+[[Image:AltClickBefore.png|center]]
-[[Image:AltClickBefore.png]]
+If you ''Alt''+click on the ''Jeff Beckley'' of the fourth message from the top, then the result would be this:
-If you Alt+click on the "Jeff Beckley" of the fourth message from the top, then the result would be this:
+[[Image:AltClickAfter1.png|center]]
-[[Image:AltClickAfter1.png]]
+'''NOTE:''' The Date column header no longer has the triangle in it. This indicates that the mailbox is no longer sorted by Date, and implies an ongoing  grouping action.
-<i>(note that the Date column header no longer has the triangle in it indicating a sort as the rearrangement of the messages means the mailbox is no longer sorted by Date)</i>
+Group selection will work on any piece of data in any column. For example, ''Alt''+clicking an attachment icon will select and group together all messages in that mailbox that have an attachment. There doesn&rsquo;t have to be any visible data in the column for it to work, either. If you were to ''Alt''+click the Attachment column of an entry that does not have an attachment (i.e. no icon is displayed), then all the messages without attachments will be selected and grouped together.
-This will work on any of the data in any of the columns.  For example, Alt+clicking on an attachment icon will select and group together all messages in that mailbox that have an attachment.  There doesn't have to be any visible data in the column for it to work, either.  If you were to Alt+click on the Attachment column of an entry that didn't have an attachment (i.e. no icon is displayed), then the messages without attachments would be selected and grouped together.
+There is also a modified form of this function: if you hold down ''Shift'' as well, then ''Alt''+''Shift''+click will select all of the matching items, but will leave them in their existing position in the list. This is helpful if you don&rsquo;t want to upset the sorting order of the mailbox. Starting with the mailbox in the state of the first image from above, if you were to ''Alt''+''Shift''+click instead then the result would be this:
-There is also a modified form of this behavior, if you hold down the Shift key as well, then Alt+Shift+click will select all of the matching items, but will leave them in their existing position in the list.  This is helpful if you don't want to upset the sorting order of the mailbox.  Starting with the mailbox in the state of the first image from above, if you were to Alt+Shift+click instead then the result would be this:
+[[Image:AltClickAfter2.png|center]]
-[[Image:AltClickAfter2.png]]
+Note that the triangle in the Date column is still present, as no messages have been moved around in the display.
-<i>(the triangle in the Date column stays in this case as no messages have been moved around)</i>