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Escape - Closes a dialog box.
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Power
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Tilde
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Delete -

• While working with text, use this key to delete characters to the left of the insertion point.
• + Delete moves selected icon to trash

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Help - Brings up the Help index for the application you are working in. If you are in the Finder this brings up Mac OS help.
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Home - Moves to the top of the scrolling list
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Page Up - Scrolls the list up one screen
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Del - While working with text, use this key to delete characters to the right of the insertion point.
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End - Moves to the bottom of the scrolling list
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Page Down - Scrolls the list down one screen
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Clear
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Tab

• + Tab to move to the next open application
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Caps Lock

• + Shift + 4 + caps lock to create a picture of a window, you select the window immediately after
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Shift

• In Netscape holding down the Shift key while depressing the space bar allows scrolling up the page.
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Control

• +Control + Power key forces restart

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Option

• + Option - Depress these two keys after extensions load to rebuild the desktop
• + Option + esc forces a program to quit
• In Internet Explorer holding down the Option key while depressing the space bar allows scrolling up the page.

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Command - Many people call this the "open-apple" key. That is a hold over from their Apple II experience. Holding the command key down and pressing another key will initiate quite a few actions. Some of the more common are listed in the table below:

+ C to copy any selected item	+ O to open a selected file	+ ] to increase font size of selected text (In MS Word or MS Works)	+ M to make an alias of a selected application icon
+ V to paste	+ B to make selected text bold	+ [ to decrease font size of selected text (In MS Word or MS Works)	+ Y to remove a selected floppy disk from the computer (Put Away)
+ X to cut any selected item	+ N to open a new page or make a new folder in the Finder	+ W to close a window	+ F to find. This works in the Finder and some applications
+ Z to undo or revert	+ Q to quit an application	+ A to select all	+ ? to launch the help menu in the Finder
+ P to print	+ S to save a document	+ D make a duplicate copy of a selected item	+ Tab to cycle through all open applications. Continue to tap Tab to move to the next application.
+ Mouse Click & hold in Internet Explorer allows scrolling with movement of the mouse		+ left/right arrows in a browser moves forward of back through the pages visited in a window

Some actions involving the Command key require more than one key to be held down. Some of those are listed in the table below:

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Space bar - In Internet Explorer or Netscape, depressing the space bar will allow scrolling down a web page. In Internet Explorer holding down the Option key while depressing the space bar allows scrolling up the page. In Netscape holding down the Shift key while depressing the space bar allows scrolling up the page.
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Return
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Enter
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Up Arrow - Navigate in a document to the line above. Hold the Command key down as you press this key to move to the beginning of the second line above.
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Down Arrow - Navigate in a document to the line below. Hold the Command key down as you press this key to move to the beginning of the second line below.
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Left Arrow - Navigate in a document one character to the left. Hold the Command key down as you press this key to move one word to the left.
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Right Arrow - Navigate in a document one character to the right. Hold the Command key down as you press this key to move one word to the right.
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