Mouseless iCal event editing

May 04, '06 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: ennisdb

This is a simple hint, but one that took me a while to figure out. I like to enter most anything I can from the keyboard, rather than using the mouse or trackpad. It frustrated me that I couldn't seem to find the right combination of Tab or Shift-Tab to access all the fields for an iCal event in the Info Window. I kept getting "stuck" at items with menus, and I couldn't find the right key combination to select a menu item (i.e. Calendar (Home, work etc.), Alarm (None, Message, etc.), etc.). The answer is simple. Tab or Shift-Tab until the menu is highlighted, then use the space bar to select the menu list, which then becomes navigable with arrow keys. Select a menu item by pressing Enter or Return. One less place where you need to use the mouse...

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