![]() RELATED: How to Use OS X Virtual Desktops More Effectively with Keyboard Shortcuts RELATED: How to Use macOS' Spotlight Like a Champ Quickly Switch Between Desktops With these two tools you can find an awful lot of stuff. ![]() To access Siri, press Option+Space instead, and start talking. To access Spotlight, press Command+Space. Whether you’re looking for a document, an image, a spreadsheet, or you want to know when a movie is playing, what the weather is like in Cleveland, or how far away the moon is, you can search for stuff with Spotlight or Siri to find stuff and find out stuff. Instead of clicking through menus, though, you can easily access the preferences on any Mac application by pressing Command +Comma. Nearly every application has preferences, and preferences are the best way to mold applications to your liking. Got a long document that you don’t want to scroll through? Press Command +Arrow Down to skip to the bottom of the document, and press Command +Arrow Up to jump to the top. Jump to the Top and Bottom of Long Documents (In some browsers, this is Command+Shift+T instead.) You can even press Command+Z to undo the closing of a tab in some instances. Finally, you can Option+Click on a tab’s “X” to close all tabs except that one.Once you have opened a bunch of new tabs, use Control+Tab or Control+Shift+Tab to step through them.To open a new tab to a specific location, double-click on that location while holding the Command key.And, thankfully, they come with shortcuts: ![]() Not only can you use tabs in Safari, but now they’re available in Finder and almost every other app as well. Tabs are all the rage nowadays, and in macOS, they have taken over. RELATED: How to Add Tabs to Almost Any App in macOS Sierra To rename a file on your Mac using only the keyboard, select the file and press the Return, then type the name of your new file. There are a number of other ways to rename files on macOS, but using the keyboard is by far the fastest. RELATED: The Fastest Ways to Rename Files on macOS On the other hand, if undoing a mistake turned out to be a mistake, then use redo with Command +Y. When you make one, press Command +Z to undo it. I have a little too much on my plate today, but I'll try to look at this more the next time I have a little free time.We all make mistakes. With the "+" and "-" buttons shown below the keystrokes area, it looks like you may be able to define your own keystrokes, but I just tried this, and didn't have any luck in making work with the menu bar. ![]() Next, the Mac Keyboard Shortcuts Preferences panel shows a number of things, including the part where is not offered as a keyboard shortcut to get to the Mac menubar from the keyboard: First, the Keyboard preferencs panel (tab) shows the option to use your Mac function keys as "standard" function keys. With many thanks to the people who commented below, I thought I'd share two screenshots of the Mac OS X keyboard preferences panels that show what is discussed in the Comments section. is certainly an easier keystroke to remember. ![]() If anyone knows the secret to that keyboard command, please write me, or better yet, leave a comment below. I've read that you can also type the keystroke to access the Mac menubar, but that isn't working - with or without the key, the key, or even the gas pedal. You'll be able to tell instantly, as focus will be moved to the "apple" menu on your Mac menubar. Sure enough, when using an Apple keyboard, if the keystroke doesn't give you access to the Mac menubar (menu system), try the keystroke and see if that works for you. " The Mac menubar keyboard command (keystroke) and as I was trying to figure this out again today, I looked over at that key on the keyboard, and thought, "No, surely I wouldn't have to press that too. Well, it turns out that what really happened is that silly me was using Apple keyboards. That never actually worked, so I logically assumed that everyone else was insane. For a long time I've read that you could use your Apple/Mac keyboard to access the menubar on MacOS systems using the keystroke. ![]()
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