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Most keyboard shortcuts require the user to press a single key or a sequence of keys one after the other. Other keyboard shortcuts require pressing and holding several keys simultaneously (indicated in the tables below by the + sign). Keyboard shortcuts may depend on the keyboard layout.
The accent then can be applied to associated letters both lower and uppercase. The additional characters a Mac will produce are a combination of both the ⌥ Option key and the ⇧ Shift key pressed down together. With this combination pressed the keyboard will now produce a different set or an uppercase version of the previous set in some cases.
Apple changed the keys on the IIGS's keyboard to Command and Option, as on Mac keyboards, but added an open-Apple to the Command key, for consistency with applications for previous Apple II generations. (The Option key did not have a closed-Apple, probably because Apple II applications used the closed-Apple key much more rarely than the open ...
Keyboard shortcuts make it easier and quicker to perform some simple tasks in your AOL Mail. Access all shortcuts by pressing shift+? on your keyboard. All shortcuts are formatted for Windows computers, but most will work on a Mac by substituting Cmd for Ctrl or Option for Alt. General keyboard shortcuts
The post 39 of the Most Useful Mac Keyboard Shortcuts appeared first on Reader's Digest. Memorize these Mac keyboard shortcuts to help you navigate your computer even faster.
An access key allows a computer user to immediately jump to a specific part of a web page via the keyboard. On Wikipedia, access keys allow you to do a lot more—protect a page, show page history, publish your changes, show preview text, and so on.
On a US keyboard layout ctrl+/ produces DEL and ctrl+2 produces ^@. It is also common for ctrl+space to produce ^@. Caret notation is used to describe control characters in output by many programs, particularly Unix terminal drivers and text file viewers such as more and less commands. Although the use of control-codes is somewhat standard ...
Enable the Input menu (via the 'Input Sources' panel of the 'Keyboard' System Preferences). This gives access to: the Keyboard Viewer, which can be used to view and input characters accessed via the ⌥ Option key; the Character Viewer, which can be used to access any Unicode character. It is also available from the Special Characters tool