Changing Subject text in mailbox window?
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text in the "Subject:" field; and save the changes, the Subject: field
in the message itself seems to be permanently changed, but the original
text still shows in the Subject: column in the mailbox window -- even if
I Quite and re-Open Eudora.
Is there a way to change the Subject: field text in both these places?
Thanks...
Peter Ceresole
> Is there a way to change the Subject: field text in both these places?
If you find a way, please let us know. It's one of the rare irritations
I have with Eudora that actually has an effect on my real life...
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Peter
John H Meyers
> If I open a received message; click on the little pencil icon; edit the
> text in the "Subject:" field; and save the changes, the Subject: field
> in the message itself seems to be permanently changed, but the original
> text still shows in the Subject: column in the mailbox window -- even if
> I Quit and re-Open Eudora.
The mailbox window's "Subject" field is in the mailbox Table of Contents (TOC),
not in the message, and is created when the TOC entry is first created.
It's by design that you can separately edit the "subject-only" TOC field
at the top of the message window, without even clicking the pencil,
without affecting the stored original message,
which will remain as you edit it in the mailbox table of contents.
Quoting the Eudora manual, right under the topic "Editing Incoming Messages":
You can edit the Subject in the icon bar at any time,
even with the pencil button off
(this is the subject shown in the message summary).
To edit the subject of an incoming message:
1. Open the message (you can leave the Pencil button off)
and edit the subject in the icon bar, not the subject in the message header.
2. When finished, click somewhere else in the message, or close it.
The new subject appears in the message summary.
The contents of the Subject field of the message header remain unchanged.
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