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Open app and close Finder window via the keyboard
Authored by: The_Anakin on Jun 02, '04 11:47:52AM

There is another shortcut to open applications and files. It might be known to most of you, but it took me a while to discover it: pressing command-[down-arrow] has the same effect as command-o. This is a very convenient method to navigate through folder hierarchies: You just need command-[up-arrow / down-arrow], without reaching to the 'o'.

Don't know if this has been mentioned before, but command-[left/right-arrow] is the keyboard-shortcut for the back/forward-arrows in a Finder window.



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Open app and close Finder window via the keyboard
Authored by: dogboy on Jun 02, '04 11:52:41AM

And if you press cmd-option-down arrow, it opens the file and closes the window, too.



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Open app and close Finder window via the keyboard
Authored by: TvE on Jun 02, '04 11:54:34AM

If I recall correctly then these shortcuts have been around since at least OS 9 - and probably even before!



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Open app and close Finder window via the keyboard
Authored by: taran on Jun 02, '04 12:23:26PM

They've been there since at least System 7.1.



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Open app and close Finder window via the keyboard
Authored by: mattybinks on Jun 02, '04 12:27:28PM

I usually just command-shift-a to open the apps folder, then type the first few letters of the app and then hit option-command-down arrow and it simultaneously launches the app and closes the window.



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