How To Use Mac Keyboard

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Mac equivalents of Windows keys

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Open your Mac's System Preferences. To do this, click the System Preferences icon in your Dock or Applications folder. 2 Select the Keyboard icon. Use keyboard shortcuts for common actions. Instead of using the mouse or a program's buttons, you can use your Mac's keyboard to do things like copying files or text, and opening certain programs: ⌘ Command + X - Copy selected text or file, then delete it from the current location (also called 'cutting'). The PC and Mac keyboards are more or less the same in terms of layout. Here's what you need to know: Letters. Unless you have a specialty keyboard of some sort (or you're outside North America), you'll have the standard QWERTY keyboard for lettering, meaning you have Q as the top left letter and M as the bottom right. How to Use Your Mac’s Function Keys You may wonder what those function keys running along the top of the keyboard do. These function keys are labeled F1 through F12/F19 (how many you have depends on your keyboard), along with an Escape key and an Eject key that looks like a triangle on top of a horizontal line.

Many of the keys that you'd see on a PC have equivalent keys on an Apple keyboard.

Windows logo: Press Command (⌘).

Backspace or Delete: Press Delete.

Enter or ⏎: Press Return.

Alt (left): Press Option (⌥).

Alt GR (right): Press Option + Control.

Applications: This key isn't available on Apple keyboards.

Use the On-Screen Keyboard for other functions

If your Apple keyboard doesn't include the following keys, you can recreate them in Windows using the On-Screen Keyboard.

Use the Snipping Tool to print screen

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To recreate the Print Screen and Print Active Window function in Windows, use the Snipping Tool.

If your keyboard isn't working as expected in Windows

If your Apple keyboard works as expected in macOS but not in Windows, try these solutions:

  • Install the latest Apple software updates for Windows.
  • Install the latest Windows support software.
  • If you're using Microsoft Windows 10 N, install the latest Media Feature Pack.

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How To Use Mac Keyboard As A Mouse

  • Microsoft provides a keyboard mapping article that describes using a Windows keyboard with macOS.
  • Use Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator to find key combinations for the unique characters used by the language and region your Apple keyboard is designed to support:
    1. Download, install, and open the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator.
    2. Choose File > Load Existing Keyboard.
    3. Select the keyboard you want to see.
    4. Find the country or region name in the keyboard list that's followed by '(Apple)'.
    5. Follow the instructions provided with the app. You can print images of the keyboard, including what keys look like when holding modifiers like Shift, Option, or Fn.