C H A P T E R 9

User Input

Table 9-7 Recommended keyboard equivalents

Creating Your Own Keyboard Equivalents

Apple reserves the right to reserve other keyboard equivalents in the future, so be careful about adding your own, and add them only for frequently used commands.

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C H A P T E R 9

User Input

Use the Command key as the main modifier key for keyboard equivalents. For a command that complements another more common command, you can add Shift. The table below shows some recommended keyboard equivalents using Shift.

Table 9-8 Some of the recommended keyboard equivalents using Shift to complement other commands

* This combination would be used only if Undo and Redo are separate commands (rather than toggled using Command-Z).

If there’s a third, less common command that’s related to a pair of commands that use Command and Shift-Command, you can use Option-Command for the third command’s keyboard equivalent. In the example in Table 9-9, Save All could be a dynamic menu item (see “Menu Behavior” (page 49)) that appears in place of Save when the user presses the Option key (rather than a separate menu item). Use combinations like these very rarely.

Table 9-9 Example of using Option to modify a shortcut already using Command

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