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Q: Menu Bar access w/o mouse
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Jul 16, 2006 7:20 PMby PT,Well you can definitely access individual menu items with short cut keys if you remember them. For example Apple/command-A to select all, Command-N for a new Finder window, etc.
I am not aware of a shortcut to actually open and scroll thru menu bar selections though.
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Jul 17, 2006 9:05 AMby ali brown,Hi Shawn!
You'll find IngiGO!'s very useful shortcut, and many more here Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts.
Have Fun!
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Jul 19, 2006 9:47 AMby ali brown,Shawn!
Open System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Keyboard Shortcuts.
Have you ever made any changes there?
Click on all of the contextual menu triangles to expand them.
Are all of the boxes on the left checkmarked?
Scroll to Turn full keyboard access on or off. Is the shortcut ^F1?
If you click on Restore Defaults, it may correct the problem. Give it a try.
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Jul 19, 2006 1:51 PMby ali brown,Patrick,
The Control and F1 keys, turn Full Keyboard Access on or OFF.
So you shouldn't need to use Control + F1 every time. Actually, if you use Control + F1 the next time, you will turn Access off, and Control + F2, won't open the menu.
You will then need to use Control + F1 again.
Make sense?
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Jul 19, 2006 3:25 PMby PT,Yep, I am home now and just tried it out. For some reason when I tried it last night it didn't toggle on/off, but does today. I suspect last night I was trying to toggle it while a menu/dock was still open which is why it didn't disable since it was in the middle of something.
Patrick
