Thank you very much for that information, I've saved the PDF document
as it will be a very handy reference.
On 01/06/2006, at 8:27 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Dane,
Thank you for asking this question. In addition to the useful replies
on this thread, I found a really useful summary of Mac key sequences
when I was trying to find out about the differences between using
the "Enter" and "Return" keys on the Mac.
The web page URL for this summary, which includes many standard
key-sequences from VoiceOver and for BootUp, but a whole lot of
other ones that I've never seen documented, is located at:
http://davespicks.com/writing/programming/mackeys.html
and English speakers can download a pdf summary of the page from:
http://davespicks.com/writing/programming/mackeys.pdf
There are also links to translations of this document into Chinese,
French,
Japanese, Croatian, and Italian.
The second thing that I found out is that in addition to the expected
differences between "Enter" and "Return" when used in text editing and
layout applications, where "Enter" inserts a page or column break
as Tim described, "Enter" has a useful edit function.
One user described this as:
-Return means "new line"
-Enter means "confirm, validate, edit"
In iTunes, when you select an entry and press "Enter" you can
edit the name, while "Return" starts the track playing, and the
space bar turns playing on or off, depending on state. This means
that an easy way to edit the track name is to use "Enter", instead
of having to use cmd+i which brings up the track information
menu for all of the tags (Artist, Album, etc.). You might want to
do this to control the play order according to track name.
This works for other apps, too.
Hope this helps others,
Esther
On Wednesday, May 31, 2006, at 09:07AM, Dane Trethowan
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thank you for that, I new about just hitting f6 but not command-f6.
On 31/05/2006, at 2:38 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote:
Hi Dane
In addition to what Jerry mentioned about the "Enter" key and the
"Return" key on the Mac:
In some Spreadsheet apps the "Return" key will confirm the entry
and move you down one cell whereas the "Enter" key will simply
confirm the entry and leave you in the same cell.
In some Word processors, the "Enter" key when pressed will insert a
page break in contrast to what the "return" key does.
another thing that may be of interest to you is the ability to have
the number pad, Page UP/down, Home/end and Insert/Del keys by
pressing cmd+f6 on your laptop. Press the cmd+f6 first then turn
Keyboard Practice on and see what you find on the right hand side
of your keyboard.
Not sure if this is new information to you but thought it worth the
note.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
& Carter the Canine
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
Dane Trethowan
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