You may have the keys mixed up. The "Apple" key is the "Command" key.
I believe Apple should be at fault here. On PCs every key had one designation and it was perfectly clear which is which.
On my PowerBook G4, UK edition:
- the ctrl key is "Ctrl" or ^ (not labeled)
- the alt key is "Alt" or the railway symbol
- the command key is "Command" (not labeled) or the Apple symbol or the cloverleaf symbol
- the shift key is "Shift" (not labeled) or the open arrow
- there are two enter/return keys, each with own symbol
And my personal favourite is the escape key, which is "Esc," but also has a symbol (a circle with an arrow pointing out). This symbol is not present on my keyboard, but I found it (and only it) in one of the (older) programs, and its also shown in the Force Quit menu item. Took me 10 minutes to figure out which key that might be.
On my recent Apple keyboards I have:
control, option (with a tiny "alt" in the upper left corner), what Apple calls the "Command" key that has an Open-Apple in the lower left corner and the "cloverleaf" in the lower right corner, space bar, "Command", option, control
The "alt" was added to the option key so that people used to pc machines would know what the key did
The escape key just has "esc" on it. I suspect that the escape key you have is due to some EU decree for the multiple language situation.
History Lesson:
Originally, what is now the left "Command" key was called the Open-Apple key on the Apple II keyboards. The right "Command" key was called the Closed-Apple key and the apple was a solid one. Both of these modifier keys did different actions. When the Mac came out it dropped the Closed-Apple key but kept the Open-Apple key, added the "cloverleaf", and called it the "Command" key. BTW, there is a name for the "cloverleaf" symbol; it is something like "Quadrial", "Quadrigale", IIRC
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Dennis B. Swaney
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