Finder Tips

As you start working your way around the Finder, you'll learn various shortcuts and tips for how to do things more easily and more quickly. To accelerate that process and make you a superuser right away, we've compiled some of the best Mac OS Finder tips for your perusal.

Common Finder Commands

You should get familiar with a few Finder commands if you want to convince others of your Macintosh guru status—or if you just want to work more efficiently.

Power key.

Pressing the power key on your Mac's keyboard (if your keyboard doesn't have one, press the power key on the Mac itself) brings up a dialog box with four choices: Restart, Sleep, ...

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