Escape - Closes a dialog box.
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F1
- Open the Help Center for whatever application you are currently working
in.
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Delete -
- While working
with text, use this key to delete characters to the left of the insertion
point.
+ Delete moves selected icon to trash
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to the keyboard
Help - Brings
up the Help index for the application you are working in. If you are in the Finder
this brings up Mac OS help.
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Home - Moves to the top of the scrolling list
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Page
Up - Scrolls the list up one screen
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Del - While
working with text, use this key to delete characters to the right of the
insertion point.
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End - Moves to the bottom of the scrolling list
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Page
Down - Scrolls the list down one screen
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Volume
(decrease) - Press this key to decrease volume. Each time you press the
volume level decreases.
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Volume (increase)
- Press this key to increase volume. Each time you press the volume level increases.
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Volume
(mute) - Press this key to mute sound.
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to the keyboard
Media
Release -
- Press this key to open,
or close the CD tray.
- Control + Media
Key - Bring up the menu to shut down, or restart, your computer.
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Clear
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Tab
-
+ Tab to move to the next open application. Continue to tap the Tab key to move
to the next open application. Release the Command key to enter the selected application.
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1 -
+ 1 to change a window to icon view
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keyboard
2 -
+ 2 to change a window to list view
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the keyboard
3
-
+ 3 to change a window to column view
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the keyboard
A
B
- In MS PowerPoint
this key will turn your screen black (B) in the middle of a slide
show, and pause the show. Pressing the same key again will bring the slide show
back (B).
-
+ B to change selected text to Bold
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the keyboard
C
N
P
Q
S
V
-
+ V to paste selected items (If you have trouble remembering
this one, think V for velcro. That's sticky)
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W
X
Z
Caps
Lock
- The lazy way to shift. Do not teach
your students to make capital letters by using this key. Also, do not type anything
that is not an acronym (like TCAP) in all caps. Why? Ask
me.
Shift
- In Netscape holding down the Shift
key while depressing the space bar allows scrolling up the page.
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Control
-
+Control + Power key forces restart
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Option
-
+ Option - Depress these two keys after extensions load to rebuild the
desktop
-
+ Option + esc forces a program to quit
- In
Internet Explorer holding down the Option key while depressing
the space bar allows scrolling up the page.
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Command
- Many people call this the "open-apple" key. That
is a hold over from their Apple II experience. Holding the command key down and
pressing another key will initiate quite a few actions. Some of the more common
are listed in the table below:
Space
bar - In Internet Explorer or Netscape,
depressing the space bar will allow scrolling down a web page. In Internet
Explorer holding down the Option key while depressing the space
bar allows scrolling up the page. In Netscape holding down the Shift
key while depressing the space bar allows scrolling up the page.
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[
(Left Bracket) -
-
+ [ to decrease font size of selected text (In MS Word or MS Works)
-
+ [ to go back one page in Internet Explorer
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] (Right Bracket) -
-
+ ] to increase font size of selected text (In MS Word or MS Works)
-
+ ] to go forward one page in Internet Explorer
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to the keyboard
Return
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Enter
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Up
Arrow -
- Navigate in a document to the
line above. Hold the Command key down as you press this key to move to
the beginning of the second line above.
- Navigate
in a window set to column view
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Down Arrow -
- Navigate
in a document to the line below. Hold the Command key down as you press
this key to move to the beginning of the second line below.
- Navigate
in a window set to column view
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Left Arrow -
- Navigate
in a document one character to the left. Hold the Command key down as you
press this key to move one word to the left.
- Navigate
in a window set to column view
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Right Arrow -
- Navigate
in a document one character to the right. Hold the Command key down as
you press this key to move one word to the right.
- Navigate
in a window set to column view
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