Use the Tab Key to Switch Between Dialog Buttons in Mac OS X
Feb 26, 2010 - 12 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.
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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