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After seeing a poor attempt at describing what symbols match up with what keys on the Mac from another website, I decided that it would be good to actually show all of them and also show you how to find a page in OS X's help system to find a lot of them.
- Command
- Shift
- Option
- Enter
- Return
- Control
- Up Arrow
- Down Arrow
- Left Arrow
- Right Arrow
- Page Up
- Page Down
- Top (Home)
- End
- Escape
- Delete (or Backspace) (above \)
- Forward Delete (or Del) (next to Home/End keys)
- Eject key
- Tab
- Back Tab (or Shift Tab) (Probably not seen on screen)
- Space (appears in some program menu items)
That pretty much covers what you might see in Menu Item mnemonics (or shortcuts).
You can find a great list of keyboard shortcuts for OS X in OS X's help system. In Finder, pull down the "Help" menu and type shortcuts. You should see an item called "About keyboard and other shortcuts". Select that entry and Apple's help system will pop up with a list of shortcuts for pretty much every aspect of OS X.
Also, if you type "Symbols for special keys" in the help menu or Help's search field, you will see an entry of the same name. That is where you can find most of the symbols and their names like what I have displayed above. I have added a few that you will probably see in menu items that were not displayed in that help page.
I hope this post helps you to understand the strange symbols displayed all over when describing keyboard shortcuts or combinations to get to certain functions and features. I know I could have used them back when I was starting out on the Mac.
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