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An A to Z of keys and keyboards: Keyboard commands

How the keyboard can be used for commands, from its reserved keys, to key equivalents, interface controls, and keyboard actions.

December 14, 2022 Macs, Technology

Shortcuts: flow control, filters, sorting and iteration

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Intermediate level, showing the use of conditional flow control, iteration, filters, sorting, Magic Variables, and debugging with a Content Graph.

November 2, 2021 Macs, Technology

Shortcuts: counting files and Quick Actions

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Basic tutorial to iterate recursively through a folder and count the number of files within it, then to do the same but as a Quick Action.

October 28, 2021 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Keyboard shortcuts killed by bug

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Want to use App Shortcuts in Mojave? You’re out of luck because its broken, and Apple can’t be bothered to fix it.

March 3, 2019 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Unwanted Ø

When I type /O in Pages, it results in the character Ø. How can I fix that?

September 6, 2015 Macs, Technology

Words on Macs: 2 Every Keystroke Counts

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This second article considers how text is entered into your Mac: mainly by the keyboard, but also briefly covers speech and scanned input.

March 23, 2015 Language, Macs, Technology
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