why has my send button disappeared entirely from my reply window? I'm typing a reply but I can't send it?????.
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When you click on reply, the window that opens is the Write window. You compose message in a write window.
When you get there and see that you have no menus did you press the alt key like suggested to make the menu bar appear? If not try that.
If you have toolbars missing in all you windows, the alt key works in the other ones also. The alt key or F10 makes hidden menus appear in most applications.
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The Send button is on the Composition Toolbar in the Write window.
Open the Write window. Do you have any of the Composition Toolbar? It has Send-Spelling-Attach etc on it.
If not from the Menu Bar select View-Toolbars and turn the Composition toolbar back on. No menu bar with View? Press the alt key.
If you have some of the Composition Toolbar but the Send button is missing, right click the toolbar and select Customize. Find the Send button in the dialog box that opens and drag it back in place.
I go to my inbox and there is a single toolbar that reads, from left to right, Unread, Starred, Contact, Tags, Attachment. That's it. I click on the email, I can read the email. The toolbar on that page, in the upper right, reads Reply, Forward, Archive, Junk, Delete. That's it. If I click on reply, I get a page on which I can compose a reply, but the only toolbars reads, from left to right, Body text, Variable width, font and page alignment symbols and a happy face. That's it.
No Write window, no composition tool.bar, no menu bar or icon, no view button.
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When you click on reply, the window that opens is the Write window. You compose message in a write window.
When you get there and see that you have no menus did you press the alt key like suggested to make the menu bar appear? If not try that.
If you have toolbars missing in all you windows, the alt key works in the other ones also. The alt key or F10 makes hidden menus appear in most applications.
Many, many thanks. The Alt F10 thing worked and all my toolbars are back.
This conversation was helpful, <alt> restored my lost menus. But why do the menus disappear in the first place? This is the first time after years of using TB that it's happened. (I was trying to reconfigure enigmail when the menus disappeared.) - eda
I have no idea what happened to your toolbars. I was not there.
I have been using Thunderbird for a long time and have never lost a toolbar or had my layout view change on it's own.
The alt key or F10 is a basic computer shortcut to reveal hidden toolbars. It works in most applications. It is not just a Thunderbird thing.
"The alt key or F10 is a basic computer shortcut to reveal hidden toolbars. It works in most applications. It is not just a Thunderbird thing."
I didn't know that. Very useful. LIve & learn! - eda