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Selecting addresses on Thunderbird 102.11.0 on Mac Ventura 13.3.1 (a)
I have used Thunderbird for MANY years, so I'm not new to it. When using address book I want to be able to select multiple non-contiguous addresses and send email to those addresses only. No matter which of the hints I try in your new instructions, I cannot get this to work. I select one address, press the appropriate key to select the next one, but then first one de-selects. I have spent LITERALLY hours experimenting in an attempt to get this feature to work.
It doesn't work on my iMac or my MacBook Pro, both of which are using the latest Mac OS and the latest Thunderbird release.
Help!
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Try this: - click 'new message' or 'write' - press F9 key ( or View>contacts sidebar) - highlight a name and click the button for To, CC, or BCC - repeat as needed - OR highlight several by using Cntl key and then press the appropriate add button.
Thanks! Your suggestions are good, but they haven't solved my problem. I can select individual names or contiguous names and get them into my To, CC, or BCC window just fine. Where I have the problem is in selecting and keeping them selected so I only have to add them to my TO, CC, or BCC window ONCE. Let's say I'm working with an address book of 500+ addresses; of those, I want to 150 to 250 for a given email. Every time I sent an email of that quantity, the recipients are different, so I can't compile a new address book. With the old Thunderbird, there were keys I could hold that would keep non-contiguous address selected until I added them to TO, CC, or BCC. So I might choose from A to H, then I to M, then N to Z. I can't figure out how to do this in the new Thunderbird in the latest MacOS. Holdling the Cntl button doesn't do it, not does holding the space bar -- both suggestions found online.
sbest64, You mentioned mac. Isn't the Cmd (command) key the one you want? I don't have any apple devices to test on, but I thought that was the key you need to start with.
Hold that, make a selection, go to the next selection, try a third selection and see if that works.
I wish that worked, but no luck. the command key only selects blocks of contiguous addresses. If I click on one address, and then click on another several addresses away while holding the command key, I will get the entire block of addresses.