A collection of keyboard/mouse combos
Apr 16, '01 07:31:42PM
Contributed by: zootbobbalu
I would like keep this posting organized, so if anyone has any corrections or additions, could
you please email me (zootbobbalu@yahoo.com).
[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:
- Click on first file of group
- Shift + Click on last file of group
To select a group of files that do not appear together in a list view:- Command + Click on any file that you want to select/deselect into or out of a group
- Repeat Step 1 to add/remove any file to or from the group
- 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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