A couple more shortcuts

Filed under: Adventures of MatBook — by MatBook — 13th July, 2006

Dialogue boxes

When closing an un-saved document, you’ll usually get the “Do you want to save changes to this document before closing?” dialogue box appear. It’s always bugged me that I have to using my mouse (or trackpad) to select one of the options in here: Save, Cancel or Don’t Save.
Here to keystrokes to activate any of these options:

Save: Return
Cancel: Escape
Don’t Save: Command + D

I guess, for any dialogue box that appears with more than the common ‘Save’ or ‘Cancel’ options, Command + initial of that option will probably activate that option.

Renaming files and Finder

On a PC, whilst browsing my files in Windows Explorer, I’d open a file by hitting Return or Enter. Up until now I’ve been using the trackpad every time I use Finder. Well, not any more! Here’s some useful shortcuts:

Select a file: arrow keys
Open the selected file/folder: Command + O.
Rename a file: Return or Enter
Up one folder: Command + up arrow
Down one folder (folder needs to be selected): Command + down arrow
New Finder window: Command + N

There are also shortcut keys for selecting the special folders (on the left) which can be found in the Go menu.

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One Response to “A couple more shortcuts”

  1. Jonathan Lewis of PersonalsDigital.com Says:
    December 2nd, 2006 at 10:54 am

    Nice tip!

    I mean, knowing how to work with shortcuts is one way of being efficient.

    Those little time do add up you know… (if doing it without shortcuts)

    Jonathan Lewis

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A couple more shortcuts

Filed under: Adventures of MatBook — by MatBook — 13th July, 2006

Dialogue boxes

When closing an un-saved document, you’ll usually get the “Do you want to save changes to this document before closing?” dialogue box appear. It’s always bugged me that I have to using my mouse (or trackpad) to select one of the options in here: Save, Cancel or Don’t Save.
Here to keystrokes to activate any of these options:

Save: Return
Cancel: Escape
Don’t Save: Command + D

I guess, for any dialogue box that appears with more than the common ‘Save’ or ‘Cancel’ options, Command + initial of that option will probably activate that option.

Renaming files and Finder

On a PC, whilst browsing my files in Windows Explorer, I’d open a file by hitting Return or Enter. Up until now I’ve been using the trackpad every time I use Finder. Well, not any more! Here’s some useful shortcuts:

Select a file: arrow keys
Open the selected file/folder: Command + O.
Rename a file: Return or Enter
Up one folder: Command + up arrow
Down one folder (folder needs to be selected): Command + down arrow
New Finder window: Command + N

There are also shortcut keys for selecting the special folders (on the left) which can be found in the Go menu.

This entry was posted on Thursday, July 13th, 2006 at 10:38 pm and is filed under Adventures of MatBook. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “A couple more shortcuts”

  1. Jonathan Lewis of PersonalsDigital.com Says:
    December 2nd, 2006 at 10:54 am

    Nice tip!

    I mean, knowing how to work with shortcuts is one way of being efficient.

    Those little time do add up you know… (if doing it without shortcuts)

    Jonathan Lewis

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