Jerry Yeager wrote: > Use the arrow keys. > Left arrow goes "back" and right arrow goes "forward" in the sense > that you can then use the right arrow key along with the up and down > arrow keys to navigate through folders. This works in both of the list > view modes. In icon mode, you will still need to click on the "back > button" in the finder window to go back and double click a folder (or > cmd+o) to open it. > > Jerry > > On Wednesday, June 4, 2003, at 03:55 PM, Beth Ernst wrote: > >> I have an annoying problem in OS X and wondered if anyone had a >> keyboard shortcut. (I hate using the mouse!) >> >> I know that I can hit home and go to the top of a list view, but is >> there any shortcut key that will take you all the way to the left >> side of the window or do I always have to go hit the scroll arrows? >> >> Sometimes when I open a finder window in the list view the scroll bar >> at the bottom of the window has been set a little to far to the right >> and cuts off the dropdown arrows beside folders, the icon and part of >> the file name. I'm just looking for a shortcut way to view everything >> again without mousing down to the scroll arrows every time. >> >> Thanks, >> Beth >> >> Don't OS X recognize character keys? The old OS's allowed you to press a character key to select the icon whose name started with or was close to the character pressed. I can't see them removing that function. But I guess they did dumber things than that in the past.
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