Mac Book Pro Keyboard Shortcuts
I just got a new Mac Book Pro a couple weeks ago, and although I love it, the biggest adjustment I had to make was getting used to the keyboard. It’s missing a bunch of keys like the side number pad (most laptops don’t have these), but it doesn’t have a page up/down button, the delete button works like backspace and not delete, and there is no home or end buttons. This really bothered me for a while, until I found out their shortcuts.
All laptops have a ‘fn’ button that is used as a modifier key for the f1…f12 buttons and usually some of the other buttons on the laptop to provide the same functionality of a full keyboard but with less keys, and they’re labelled with a different color to indicate what those buttons are. On the Mac Book Pro they aren’t. Here they are:
- Home: <command> + arrow key up
- End: <command> + arrow key down
- Page Up: <option>+arrow key up
- Page Down: <option>+arrow key down
- Delete: <fn> + delete
It was a big relief to finally find these shortcut keys, I’ve been frustrating myself trying to adjust to not having them.
