Condolences!

Absurd we cannot merely choose the menu and have it put in.  Another  
reason why its so darn confusing is you don't do any hierarchy.  You  
just type the final menu item name.  And you have to experiment to  
see if the dot-dot-dot is an ellipsis or three periods. (usually the  
latter).  I think this also explains why some menues have been made  
rather long— so they can be specific.  It also explains to me why  
some keybindings get messed up, especially with common menues like  
"zoom".  It is nothing short of a travesty that Apple has not done  
better in this regard.

Best of luck. :-)
	Ben in Montana (on sys 10.4.11 reluctant to upgrade when such basics  
are not fixed! :-)

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On 2012 Jan 16, Mon, at 7:50 pm, THDW wrote:

> Ed
>
> Thanks again.
>
> 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.
>
> What exactly should I be writing?
>
> TIA
>
>
> T
>
>
> On 16 Jan 2012, at 22:08, Ed Wall wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> Ed
>>
>> On Jan 16, 2012, at  8:51 PM, THDW wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 16 Jan 2012, at 21:07, Ed Wall wrote:
>>>
>>>> I use both Snow Leopard and Lion and find Command 1 works.  
>>>> Perhaps you have specified otherwise elsewhere.
>>>
>>> ED
>>>
>>> Thanks for the input.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> What a nuisance! You'd think there was something more intuitive.
>>>
>>> Best
>>>
>>> T
>>>
>>
>