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Full keyboard access and Finder shortcuts

Submitted by Merlin on September 16, 2004 - 1:58am.

Depending on how and how much you like to use your keyboard for getting around, you might consider going to “System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Keyboard Shortcuts” and enabling “Turn on full keyboard access”. Among many things, this lets you tab through drop down menus on web pages. (You’d already given up all hope, hadn’t you?)

That “Keyboard Shortcuts” tab is also the place to enable or re-assign a bunch of key commands you may not know were even available in the Finder (did you know you can jump to the Dock using your keyboard?).

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if you're really into keyboard...

Submitted by elias (not verified) on September 16, 2004 - 9:47am.

if you’re really into keyboard access on the mac, i would highly recommend the Launch Bar application:

http://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/

it lets you quickly open applications, folders, files, and more with a simple keyboard shortcut and file name abbreviations. i’ll admit it doesn’t sound particularly great, but once you try it, you’ll be hooked.

-e.