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How do I get the body of messages to display in lower right section of Thunderbird screen again? I accidentally turned it off with some key strokes, I think.

AnneJ

My opening screen in Thunderbird (v 31.2.0) is normally set to show folders list in left column, Google calendar alerts in right column, received messages in the top half of the center column with the first few lines of the messages displayed in the lower half of the center column. While typing in the dark this morning, I evidently didn't type "CTRL+N" to bring up new message because immediately the lower display no longer showed. I don't see any options to change in the menus. I tried typing a few combinations to no avail and can find no how-to-fix-this articles with a few different searches. I know this has to be something simple to fix. I appreciate help in figuring out where I went wrong. Thanks.

My opening screen in Thunderbird (v 31.2.0) is normally set to show folders list in left column, Google calendar alerts in right column, received messages in the top half of the center column with the first few lines of the messages displayed in the lower half of the center column. While typing in the dark this morning, I evidently didn't type "CTRL+N" to bring up new message because immediately the lower display no longer showed. I don't see any options to change in the menus. I tried typing a few combinations to no avail and can find no how-to-fix-this articles with a few different searches. I know this has to be something simple to fix. I appreciate help in figuring out where I went wrong. Thanks.

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That is called the Message Pane. Press F8 to toggle it on and off. You can also access it from the View button on the menu bar. View-Layout-Message Pane

Sorry, Airmail. This didn't address the issue of not showing the first few lines of the highlighted message that disappeared. F8 DOES toggle the list of messages in the top half from longer to half pane but it doesn't show list of messages in top and the first few lines of the message highlighted in the top down on the bottom of the pane. The View menu in, v 31.2.0 anyway, doesn't offer a layout of message option. I went through menu options again and didn't find anything else that would offer this option.

Oddly enough, the page displays normally in the Sent, Saved & Draft mail so evidently this only affected the Inbox. The search continues....