Activate a Finder window with the keyboard

Mar 28, '02 07:57:42PM

Contributed by: jamesmac

The new global "command+h" shortcut means that I regularly switch to the Finder without clicking on a Finder window. This often results in my being presented with a Finder window which is not active.

Not wanting to have to reach for the mouse, I wanted a keyboard shortcut that would make the frontmost finder window active. There does not appear to be a built-in shortcut for this purpose. However, I found the the following achieves the desired effect:

"command+~" (tilde) followed by "esc"

It's not rocket science but it's handy.

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