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#WHAT IS UP ARROW ON MAC KEYBOARD MAC OS X#
#WHAT IS UP ARROW ON MAC KEYBOARD MAC OS#
#WHAT IS UP ARROW ON MAC KEYBOARD PRO#
#WHAT IS UP ARROW ON MAC KEYBOARD PC#
#WHAT IS UP ARROW ON MAC KEYBOARD WINDOWS#

Here's a list of highly useful and not-so-useful keyboard shortcuts: Shortcut

#WHAT IS UP ARROW ON MAC KEYBOARD MAC OS#

There's a lot you can do in Mac OS by using the keyboard only. In some apps, like Photoshop, you need to add Control into the mix, to paste the screenshot into the app. The cursor will turn to the camera and the active window will have a blue overlay. First press the shortcut from above, then - when you have crosshair - hit Space.

Command + Shift + 4 + Space - captures selected window.

Your cursor turns to crosshair and by clicking and dragging you can specify which area you want to capture

Command + Shift + 4 - captures selected region.

Command + Shift + 3 - captures entire screen.

This functionality is accessed by keyboard shortcuts and - on Mac - you have greater flexibility:

#WHAT IS UP ARROW ON MAC KEYBOARD PC#

Unlike PC keyboard, there is no Print Screen key on MacBook keyboard. You can also check out our solution to the two languages on one keyboard problem. If you want to type special characters or accents, change your keyboard language to US International PC (thanks, Steve!) and use the map below to get them. MacBook Keyboard Special Characters and Accents Map

#WHAT IS UP ARROW ON MAC KEYBOARD PRO#

Newest MacBooks Pro with TouchBar don't have upper F keys row, instead, they have a touchscreen which changes displayed options based on context. MacBook Air 11" has slightly different keyboard, with smaller top and bottom row keys to accommodate smaller laptop size. If you're unsure about the localization you have, go and check it with this guide. Of course, MacBook keyboards have lots of localizations, the most common - US English - is shown above. On the diagram, this is shown by dashed lines. Return and left Shift has two variants, one used in the US and Eastern Asia (horizontal Return and long Shift), and second, used in Europe, Middle East and Africa (vertical Return and short left Shift).

#WHAT IS UP ARROW ON MAC KEYBOARD MAC OS X#

Command and Alt/Option are used in keyboard shortcuts, as well as the Control key, which is used almost exclusively by Mac OS X and Apple programs. Shift allows to type uppercase letters and other additional characters. The second section is the modifier keys (in light yellow). By combining them with the FN key, you'll get access to F1 - F12 keys, which can be associated with particular application features (useful in Photoshop for example). MacBook keyboard has few distinctive sections: Function keys (in light blue), which provides access to various functions in MacBook itself or Mac OS system.

MacBook keyboard special characters and accents map.

Click on the list below to jump to an appropriate section. The current situation isn’t exactly user-friendly.This is the ultimate guide for working with MacBook keyboards, including accessing special functions, characters, accents, and using keyboard shortcuts in Mac OS system. Why this isn’t more standardized, we can’t say, but it would be nice if Apple put symbols used by the operating system on their physical keyboards everywhere. Other countries use these symbols to varying extents. For example, here’s the keyboard of my coworker Harry Guinness, who lives in Ireland:Īs you can see, the “⌥” and “⇧” symbols are on the keyboard, replacing the words “Option” and “Shift” entirely. You may be wondering: why does Apple use these symbols in the operating system, and not on the physical keyboard? The answer: they used to put these symbols on keyboards everywhere, and still do in many parts of the world. What Aren’t These Stupid Symbols on my Keyboard? If you learn these symbols, you should be able to figure out basically any keyboard shortcut pointed out in the menu bar, or anywhere else online.

#WHAT IS UP ARROW ON MAC KEYBOARD WINDOWS#

↖︎ means Top (called Home on Windows computers).The first four, simple arrows, are intuitive enough:īut there are four more such symbols, also arrows but used to mean different things entirely:

There are also a few symbols commonly used to refer to the navigation keys. ⌦ means Forward Delete (called Delete on Windows keyboards).

⌫ means Delete (called Backspace on Windows keyboards).There are a few more symbols that macOS uses to represent keys, which are also worth learning. At least, those are the two that trip me up most often. It’s particularly important that you remember that “Shift” is the fleshed-out arrow, and “Control” is the simpler shape. Memorizing these four symbols should be enough for you to learn the vast majority of keyboard shortcuts. To start, here are the main modifier keys, which you’re likely to see most often: If you’re trying to learn Mac keyboard shortcuts, this is a problem, so here’s a quick reference. But what’s the difference between “⌃” and “⇧,” both basically up arrows? And what the heck is “⌥” supposed to be? You might know that “⌘” corresponds to the Command key, since it actually appears on the keyboard key. What the Arrow, Squiggly, and Other Symbols Mean