Morning All,
Thanks Ronnie as always helpful, but the f-keys have changed somewhat
as the F7 through to F12 are Audio and Video on new Aluminium
Keyboards. With the show all open at F3, Dashboard at F4, Brightness
at F1 and F2. These F keys can be reprogrammed also toggled via a fn
key, as on Mac/Powerbook laptops.
fn key basically turns of Apples preferred use of key function hence
acronym fn, returning it to a neutral situation for programs to
utilise like F7 for spellchecker. This control can be reversed so
hitting f-key will function as programmed and Apple functions need fn
depressed.
Check box in System Preferences / Keyboard Mouse.
This is where it gets confusing as some Apple and 3rd party programs
do use these f-keys as above and others still use old ways. But, all
are programmable, some programs allowing more control than others
through their preferences or system preferences - keyboard and mouse.
A question mark arises over the F13, F14, and F15 keys as they seem to
be untouchable without some severe reprogramming of keyboard. Strange
since F16 too F19 are programmable through keyboard preferences.
Cheers!
`Rob...
On 10Sep2008, at 8:58 pm, Ronda Brown wrote:
On 10/09/2008, at 1:21 PM, Martin Sulkowski wrote:
I h've got someone using excel on my mac.He is used to the f-keys
from the PC.Does anyone know the"conversion fron PC to mac F-
keys"?...as well as shortcutstrokes on Pc to Mac?
Hello Martin,
Nearly all of the Windows shortcuts for which you used the Control
key are still there, except that instead of Control, use Command,
sometimes called the Apple key.
For example, bolding text in a word processor is now Command-B
rather than Control-B, bookmarking a webpage in your internet
browser is Command-D rather than Control-D, etc.
To move the Windows cursor through text word-by-word—rather than
character-by-character—the shortcut was Control-Arrow Key, instead
the command is now Option-Arrow Key.
To move quickly between open programs, many Windows users relied
upon the Alt-Tab command, which is instead Command-Tab.
To manually shut down a program in Windows, the command was Control-
Alt-Delete (a command with which all Windows users should be
intimately familiar), but in Mac you can "Force Quit" a program by
pressing Command-Option-Escape.
To eject a CD, press and hold the Eject button at the top right of
your keyboard, above the delete key.
To toggle a function that lets you magnify portions of your screen,
press Command-Option-8, then press Command-Option-+ or - to zoom in
or out.
F9 to F12 are programmed to provide a few helpful tools for managing
your screen space:
Press F9 to fit all open windows on the screen at once.
Press F10 to fit all open windows in the selected program at
once.
Press F11 to push aside all open windows and show your desktop.
Press F12 to pull up the Dashboard.
<http://www.danrodney.com/mac/index.html>
Cheers,
Ronni
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