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Escape - Closes a dialog box.
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F1 - Open the Help Center for whatever application you are currently working in.
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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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Volume (decrease) - Press this key to decrease volume. Each time you press the volume level decreases.
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Volume (increase) - Press this key to increase volume. Each time you press the volume level increases.
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Volume (mute) - Press this key to mute sound.
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Media Release -

• Press this key to open, or close the CD tray.
• Control + Media Key - Bring up the menu to shut down, or restart, your computer.
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Clear
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Tab

• + Tab to move to the next open application. Continue to tap the Tab key to move to the next open application. Release the Command key to enter the selected application.
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1 - + 1 to change a window to icon view
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2 - + 2 to change a window to list view
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3 - + 3 to change a window to column view
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A

• + A to select all in a window
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B

• In MS PowerPoint this key will turn your screen black (B) in the middle of a slide show, and pause the show. Pressing the same key again will bring the slide show back (B).
• + B to change selected text to Bold
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C

• + C to copy selected items
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N

• + Shift + N to make a new folder
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P

• + P to print
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Q

• + Q to quit an application
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S

• + S to save a document
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V

• + V to paste selected items (If you have trouble remembering this one, think V for velcro. That's sticky)
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W

• + W to close a window
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X

• + X to cut selected items
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Z

• + Z to undo (to "zap" some action)
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Caps Lock

• The lazy way to shift. Do not teach your students to make capital letters by using this key. Also, do not type anything that is not an acronym (like TCAP) in all caps. Why? Ask me.

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)	+ Shift + N to make a new folder
+ V to paste	+ B to make selected text bold	+ [ to decrease font size of selected text (In MS Word or MS Works)	+ Tab to move to the next open application. Continue to tap the Tab key to move to the next open application. Release the Command key to enter the selected application.
+ X to cut any selected item	+ N to open a new page	+ 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	+ Shift + ? 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	Check the menu windows on an application to find more uses of the Command key
+ 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

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

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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[ (Left Bracket) -

• + [ to decrease font size of selected text (In MS Word or MS Works)
• + [ to go back one page in Internet Explorer
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] (Right Bracket) -

• + ] to increase font size of selected text (In MS Word or MS Works)
• + ] to go forward one page in Internet Explorer
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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.
• Navigate in a window set to column view
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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.
• Navigate in a window set to column view
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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.
• Navigate in a window set to column view
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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.
• Navigate in a window set to column view
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