Use the Tab Key to Switch Between Dialog Buttons in Mac OS X
Feb 26, 2010 - 14 Comments
Using a Keyboard option you can allow the Tab Key to switch between dialog buttons, fields, and anything else in a dialog box within Mac OS X. This can greatly enhance the speed at which you use your Mac, and I’m a bit surprised Apple has never chosen to enable the feature by default.
Enable Tab Key for Navigating Mac Dialog Boxes & Buttons
* Launch System Preferences
* Click “Keyboards”
* Select “Keyboard Shortcuts”
* Near the bottom look for “Full Keyboard Access” and click the radio button next to ‘All controls’
* Close System Preferences (if you are confused see below screenshot)
Now anytime you have a dialog window pop up you can quickly navigate to the alternate choices and options by simply hitting the Tab key, very useful!
indeed very useful — thanks for sharing this tip.
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Thank you so much!
Great! Thanks so much!
thanks for this great tip
I can’t get it to work properly. I can move the highlight but that’s only a sort of frame. So when I push return it still chooses save rather than don’t save when in a save dialog.
I’m also seeing that same thing… I’d love to know how to make it “work” via the keyboard entirely. The one thing I miss from Windoze are the keyboard shortcuts.
Use ‘Spacebar’ to select the currently highlighted item.
Thanks, this was the only thing missing from the article.
awesome!!!!!!
you have to use your spacebar!!
thank you sooooo much for this – it was driving me insane & i couldn’t for the life of me figure out how they sold macs to the blind
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Thank you so much.. I look so stupid.. after using it for nearly 7 years, I happen to search this feature now and found your information easy to use.
thank you for educating me.