The System Preferences Window
You can open System Preferences in dozens of ways:
Choose its name from the
menu.Press Option-volume key (
, 
, or 
on the top row of the keyboard),
Option-brightness key (
or 
), or, on laptops that have them,
Option-keyboard-brightness key (
or 
). These tricks open the Sound and Displays
panes, but you can then click Show All or press 
-L to see the full spread.If you know the name of the System Preferences panel you want, it’s often quicker to use Spotlight (Chapter 3). To open the iCloud panel, for example, hit -space, type iclo, and then press Return.
Turns out that ...
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