EDIT: They got the funded! Chicken-related board games for all!

Switching windows in MS Office

The cmd + ` shortcut to switch windows does not work in Microsoft Office. This is annoying, but there’s an easy fix. I remapped the “Move focus to next window” shortcut to “alt + tab” (like in Windows, you can use whatever you like). This can be done in System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> Keyboard & Text Input.

Delete is not backspace

fn + Delete

Delete (rather than backspace). This is great! I’m loving having the delete key back. However, there are also some options to it, which get really weird. (This is probably because I don’t come from a Vi world or something…)

alt + Delete

If you are inside a word, this command will delete from cursor to start of the current word. If you are in a space, it will delete from cursor to start of the previous word (even if you are on a following line). And it doesn’t treat punctuation as a separate word, just as the following text navigation keys don’t. (EDIT: this doesn’t work in any Microsoft Office application. Boo.)

cmd + Delete

This should delete whole line from cursor to start of the current line, but it doesn’t seem to work everywhere. (For example, it doesn’t work in the WordPress form that I’m composing this post in).

Navigating Text

These commands move the cursor around, and you can add shift to any of these to select.

cmd + <-

Home (move cursor to start of line).

cmd + ->

End (move cursor to end of line).

alt + ->

Start of previous word.

alt + <-

End of current word.

alt + up arrow

Start of current paragraph.

alt + down arrow

Start of next paragraph.

Moving Around a Document

These commands just move the viewport around, rather than the cursor.

fn + up arrow

Page up.

fn + down arrow

Page down.

fn + <-

Home (viewport, not cursor).

fn + ->

End (viewport, not cursor).

ctrl + left/right

I also recommend going into System Preferences->Keyboard->Keyboard Shortcuts->Mission Control and disabling the ctrl + left/right commands to move from space to space, or you will have a tiresome animation taking you away from your document if you ever hit the wrong modifier key. I’m on a multi-touch trackpad so I don’t need the key shortcut, but if could be remapped to anything.

Thanks to Lifehacker.com for the delete keys. A full list of Mac keyboard shortcuts from Apple is here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1343.

… And for what will sadly be my final gig with Todger, due to the move to Canterbury: