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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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RE: The Dock shortcuts --...

Submitted by Travis Smith (not verified) on September 22, 2004 - 5:31pm.

RE: The Dock shortcuts – there’s also one that makes the dock appear and disappear. On command! Like when you have a window stuck behind it that you can’t resize! Cmd-Opt-D, my new best friend. Thanks very much for leading me into this obscure corner of the Mac OS – it’s so useful.