The function keys are your friends

By Dave Caolo

I just love learning new keyboard shortcuts. Anything that keeps my hands on the keys and off of the mouse makes me happy. I thought I had a good repertoire of shortcuts memorized, but every now and then I come across a few that are new to me. Such was the case when I stumbled across these gems at Appleology:

  • F2
    plus Control = Navigate the menu bar, starting from the left hand side.
  • F3 plus Control = Navigate the dock, using the left and right arrow keys to move between icons and the up and down arrow keys to view the navigate thought the contextual menu.
  • F4 plus Control = cycle through all of the open windows.
  • F8
    plus Control = navigate through the right side of the menu bar. Note that this only works with some menu bar icons. In fact, I was only able to select the Remote Desktop icon this way

Pretty nice. If you knew this already consider it a refresher, if not I hope you find these shortcuts useful.

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