Comments on: Six Mac Shortcuts I Love http://beyond-school.org/2007/10/22/three-mac-shortcuts-i-love/ A field headquarters in the War on Schooliness. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:48:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Alexis http://beyond-school.org/2007/10/22/three-mac-shortcuts-i-love/#comment-2279 Alexis Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:55:33 +0000 http://beyond-school.org/2007/10/22/three-mac-shortcuts-i-love/#comment-2279 To set eg Apple-F12 as "make text bigger" and Apple-F11 as "make text smaller", use the System Preferences, Keyboard & Mouse, Keyboard Shortcuts. I did this just for Safari, but you can do all applications. + to add a new shortcut enter the text "Make Text Bigger" Use the keyboard for the key you want, eg apple-F12 restart Safari. Works wonderfully! Now people over 45 can buy Macbooks! To set eg Apple-F12 as “make text bigger” and Apple-F11 as “make text smaller”, use the System Preferences, Keyboard & Mouse, Keyboard Shortcuts. I did this just for Safari, but you can do all applications.

+ to add a new shortcut
enter the text “Make Text Bigger”
Use the keyboard for the key you want, eg apple-F12

restart Safari. Works wonderfully! Now people over 45 can buy Macbooks!

]]> By: Alexis http://beyond-school.org/2007/10/22/three-mac-shortcuts-i-love/#comment-1498 Alexis Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:06:08 +0000 http://beyond-school.org/2007/10/22/three-mac-shortcuts-i-love/#comment-1498 ctrl+apple+2finger doesn't seem to work on my macbook. However: Control+2Finger scroll (up for bigger, down for smaller text) does. Really cool and a great help -- thanks for the clue. Now: Do you know a true Macbook keyboard equivalent to apple+plus (make text bigger)? Zooming is good, but enlarging is more natural for me. I can't find a keyboard equivalent for the "plus" key. ctrl+apple+2finger doesn’t seem to work on my macbook.

However: Control+2Finger scroll (up for bigger, down for smaller text) does. Really cool and a great help — thanks for the clue.

Now: Do you know a true Macbook keyboard equivalent to apple+plus (make text bigger)? Zooming is good, but enlarging is more natural for me. I can’t find a keyboard equivalent for the “plus” key.

]]> By: Chris Betcher http://beyond-school.org/2007/10/22/three-mac-shortcuts-i-love/#comment-629 Chris Betcher Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:12:40 +0000 http://beyond-school.org/2007/10/22/three-mac-shortcuts-i-love/#comment-629 As well as ctrl+cmd+2fingerscroll to zoom the text on a webpage, you can also do it but cmd++ (that's command and the plus key) to enlarge and cmd+- (that's command and the minus key) to reduce. Hmm, never realised how awkward that keystroke is to write down until I came to actually, well, write it down. As well as ctrl+cmd+2fingerscroll to zoom the text on a webpage, you can also do it but cmd++ (that’s command and the plus key) to enlarge and cmd+- (that’s command and the minus key) to reduce.
Hmm, never realised how awkward that keystroke is to write down until I came to actually, well, write it down.

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