Preview Pane missing

Hi there.
My MD is missing his preview pane.
I have tried to double click at the bottom where it should be, but its not there.
At the bottom, is just the end of mail, its hard to explain, but there is no bar to double click on to get the preview pane back up.
Is there another way to do this?
I have tried quitting mail, restarting, and re-sizing the mail window, but all to no avail.
Anyone got any other suggestions?

My Preview Pane suddenly went missing, too. One moment it was there, next moment I looked up and it was gone!
The real PITA though is the total lack of reference in Mail Help, not only on how to open a Preview Pane, but not even acknowledging that such a thing exists. I've searched on everywhere key word I can think of and zip, nada, nowhere.
If anybody knows how to open a preview pane in the Mail app, PLEASE post it here.
Without a preview pane, it's virtually useless.
This is my first real disappointment with MacBook. As a tech writer I find the MacBook Help documentation pretty pathetic.

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