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thunderbird 'new messages'

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I do not know why but since yesterday I don't have the Orange Box in my Thunderbird home page to create a new message. I have to go into account and click on new message ( with a pen icon ). How do I get the orange box back. I have the orange area in the other pages like addresses, calendar, and the like, but not for new messages. How could I get it back because I installed a new copy of Thunderbird but it did not work. Thank you.

I do not know why but since yesterday I don't have the Orange Box in my Thunderbird home page to create a new message. I have to go into account and click on new message ( with a pen icon ). How do I get the orange box back. I have the orange area in the other pages like addresses, calendar, and the like, but not for new messages. How could I get it back because I installed a new copy of Thunderbird but it did not work. Thank you.

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Two ways: 1. click the hamburger menu in upper right (three short horizontal lines). One of the menu options is View 2. Or, click the menu bar at top of screen to see the View option. If the menu bar is not visible, press the alt key

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try clicking view>folders and tick 'folder pane header' to see if that fixes it.

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how do you get to "view>folders". Thank you.

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Two ways: 1. click the hamburger menu in upper right (three short horizontal lines). One of the menu options is View 2. Or, click the menu bar at top of screen to see the View option. If the menu bar is not visible, press the alt key

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David, It worked. Thank you very much.

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You're very welcome. :)

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