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Now instead of that I can do the tilde which on American keyboards is Shift and then the key just to the left of the one. Type that and notice instead of entering it in the name field there it automatically uses this Go to the folder field here and you can start typing a path name starting with the top level of your drive which you would normally start with a slash. All you need to do is use one of two keys. Now if you really like using the keyboard you can actually type the name of the path. Lots of other Finder shortcuts work here as well. So I can go back into Pages here and do Command 1, Command 2, and Command 3 and you can see those work as well. In the Finder, View Icon List in Columns corresponds to Command 1, Command 2, and Command 3. Here I am in an Open dialogue and you see I can actually switch to Icon or Column view instead of List view here. Now other Finder keyboard shortcuts work as well. If I were to go say to the Home folder and go down into Pictures I could do Command Up to go up. So say I moved up from the iCloud Drive Documents folder to iCloud Drive. Note that you can also use Command up arrow to move up in the hierarchy. So if I wanted to go File, Open I can do Command Shift H to go Home. I go back into Pages here and Command Shift H takes me to my Home folder. So for instance if I wanted to get to the Home folder it's Command Shift H. So I can get to any of these folders the same way. Where did Command Shift O come from? Well if I go to the Finder here there's a Go command and you can see all these keyboard shortcuts. I can do Command Shift O and it changes to Documents. You can navigate around to different folders in the Save dialogue using the same keyboard shortcuts you used in the Finder. So if I want to Close this document and never save it I can use Command and press the Delete key on the keyboard and it's the same as pressing that Delete button on the screen. When it's the Delete button is seems like only Command Delete works. But you can also use Command Delete and do it. When it says Don't Save you can use Command D to activate Don't Save. Now on some apps that button says Don't Save. So for instance I can go to File, Close or use Command W and I get Save and Cancel as before except now I also get a Delete button. That's when you go to close something you haven't saved yet. Now there's a variation on the Save dialogue. So I can type a name and then hit Return to save all without having to touch the mouse or trackpad. Now notice text is selected in the Save As field for typing.
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In this case the button that it's in the bright blue color. The Return key, by default, is going to do the default action. But if you want to do it by the keyboard you can just hit the Return key. Now if you want to actually save then you can, of course, click the Save button. But the keyboard shortcut for that is either the Escape key or you can use Command period to trigger the cancel button.
KEYBOARD SHORTCUT FOR MAC DIALOGUE BOX HOW TO
The first one I'm going to show you is how to Cancel if you don't want to do whatever the action is or the Dialogue like Open or Save or it could be something else like Printing. It doesn't matter which one of these we use because the keyboard shortcuts are pretty much the same.
KEYBOARD SHORTCUT FOR MAC DIALOGUE BOX FULL
This is the compressed mode where you see just the bare minimum and you can click this little reveal triangle here to look at the full mode. So I'm going to do Command S or you could do File, Save and be presented with a Save dialogue. Here I've created a document in Pages and have typed some text but I haven't saved it yet. But when you go to Save or Open a file you're presented with a special dialogue and you can use some keyboard shortcuts there too to get through that quicker. So most keyboard shortcuts deal with commands in the Menu Bar. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of supporters. On this episode let's take a look at keyboard shortcuts for Save and Open Dialogues. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with. Check out 6 Keyboard Shortcuts You Can Use In Mac Open And Save Dialogs at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.