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A collection of keyboard/mouse combos Desktop
I would like keep this posting organized, so if anyone has any corrections or additions, could
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[Editor's note: All of these have appeared in one form or another here, but it's sort of nice having them in one consolidated tip]

Read the rest of the posting for a fairly comprehensive list of shortcuts...

Finder Window:

To select a group of files that appear together in a list view:
  1. Click on first file of group
  2. Shift + Click on last file of group
To select a group of files that do not appear together in a list view:
  1. Command + Click on any file that you want to select/deselect into or out of a group
  2. Repeat Step 1 to add/remove any file to or from the group
  3. Command + Drag selects/deselects items the mouse arrow moves over
    Note: Holding the Command key down forces all items to freeze so that items can only be selected/deselected with the mouse and not moved around.
Finder Window Toolbar:
  • To move/remove item in toolbar: Command + Click + Drag
  • To edit toolbar: Shift + Click top right button in Finder Window
Any Window:
  • To dock all windows owned by a particular application at once:
    • Command + Option + Yellow Minus Button
    • Option + Yellow Minus Button
  • To move a window that is behind an active window without changing the statis of the active window: Command + Drag the title bar of background window
Dock:
  • To freeze dock items so that they do not move around when you want to drop an item onto an icon in the dock: Command + Option + Drag item onto dock item. Note: this method forces an application to attempt to open an item dropped onto the application's icon in the dock
  • To get any item in the Dock to pop open a menu (Folder/HD pop open a quasi AppleMenu, applications pop open a menu with options to quit, show or select a window and the trash can pops open with the option to empty): Control + Click on any item in the dock. Note: click/hold on any item in the Dock has the same but this is a bit slower
  • To have the Finder show you where a dock item is located: Command + Click item
  • To hide all other windows and show the windows of a running application: Command + Option + Click on the application icon in the dock
  • To hide the windows of the application in foreground and bring the windows of another application into foreground: Option + Click on the application icon in the dock. Note: This allows you to switch between two applications without hiding things like Finder Windows or the Internet Connect status window.
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