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.

-- 
Tony LaFemina
Major in Layout & Design Techniques
Minor in Software Fundamentals
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