Okay I see when I access the System Preferences: Keyboard: Keyboard Shortcuts: Application Shortcuts a screen to the right with some items on it. In my case there is All Applications and an entry for Show Help Menu. You need to click on the plus in the bottom right to add a new shortcut. When you do thi,s you will get a screen with a popdown button (mine happens to begin with All Application). Choose  Mail. You'll have two blanks to fill Menu title (I entered Inbox) and Keyboard shortcut (I pressed Command 1). That should do it.

Does that make sense? I tend to be a little nerdy at times.

Ed

On Jan 16, 2012, at  9:50 PM, THDW wrote:

> Ed
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> Thanks again.
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> I go to the System Preference page but I don't see how I get the menu hierarchy into the pane for the short cut. I imagine it is Go to Favourite Mailbox, Inbox but I don't know how to write that for the dialogue box.
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> What exactly should I be writing?
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> TIA
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> T
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> On 16 Jan 2012, at 22:08, Ed Wall wrote:
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>> I, just for fun, changed mine to Command 8 (you just type Command 1 with command and 1 key) and used Inbox for the menu title (you might want to look at your titles in the sidebar to see just what it is actually named). It worked fine. Thinking back to long ago I seem to remember one needed to be careful about naming whatever was going to be the Inbox. By the way, if I look under Go To under the Mailbox popup (which you might want to do to see what is going on), I see that my Inbox has been assigned Command 8. If I erase that in System Preferences it changes back Command 1 automatically.
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>> Ed
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>> On Jan 16, 2012, at  8:51 PM, THDW wrote:
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>>> On 16 Jan 2012, at 21:07, Ed Wall wrote:
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>>>> I use both Snow Leopard and Lion and find Command 1 works. Perhaps you have specified otherwise elsewhere.
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>>> ED
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>>> Thanks for the input.
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>>> I can't understand why the short cut has changed. I would love to change back to Command 1 for inbox but I have difficulty in System Preferences to write the full menu command correctly.
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>>> What a nuisance! You'd think there was something more intuitive. 
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>>> Best
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>>> T
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