by MARK WEST 11/18/10

Mac Tips

Special Keys

You probably call this the "Apple Key", but it's officially called the Command Key and it is located near your spacebar. It is used on a Mac much like the control key is used on Microsoft Windows®; example: control-c on Windows copies and on a Mac we use command-c; control-v pastes on Windows and command-v pastes on Mac OS.

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The Option Key is located near the Command Key and is sometimes called the ALT key. This key can frustrate a Windows user, as it doesn't work as a Windows ALT key does (you'll often use the Command Key on Mac where ALT is used in Windows), such as when tabbing through open applications: on Windows it's ALT-Tab, on a Mac it's Command-Tab.

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The Control Key is located near the Command Key and has special funtions on a Mac (see "Right Clicking" below).

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Exiting A Bad Program

On Windows, Alt+F4 will quickly terminate a program.

On Mac OS, Command+Q will quickly terminate a program.

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The "3-Finger Salute"

On Windows, when a program stops behaving properly, you can press Control+Alt+Delete to invoke the Task Manager to make an application stop.

On Mac OS, you can accomplish the same thing by pressing Command+Option+Escape; this invokes the Force Quit menu and you can make applications stop.

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"Right Clicking"

Sometimes you need to right click. On most computers it's easy, as they come with a two-button mouse. On Mac OS, you typically find a single-button mouse.

You can plug a two-button mouse in to a Mac and it will work. The reason is because two-button mice work on Unix and Mac OS is a Unix variant that uses parts from FreeBSD's and NetBSD's implementation of Unix.

You can also "right click" on a Mac with a single button mouse. To do so, you can do either of the following:

1. Press and hold the Control Key while clicking.
2. (This one only works if you have a Mac with a touchpad - usually a laptop) place two fingers on the touchpad while clicking.

Mac ActivInspire Keyboard Shortcuts

According to the findings in Robert J. Marzano and Mark W. Haystead 's FINAL research (July 2009), page 41,

"Considered as a set, one might predict relatively large percentile gains in student achievement under the following conditions:

• A teacher is experienced.
• A teacher has used Promethean ActivClassroom for an extended period of time.
• A teacher uses Promethean ActivClassroom extensively in the classroom but not beyond 80% of the time.
• A teacher has high confidence in his or her ability to use Promethean ActivClassroom"

This is designed to help the instructor become more familiar with ActivInspire which should assist the instructor becoming more confident in the use of Promethean's ActivClassroom, which includes the use of ActivInspire.

Shortcut	Which Means Press These Keys	Effect
Command + A		Select All (everything on the Inspire screen)
Command + B		Browsers (reveal them or hide them)
Command + C		Copy (that which is selected)
Command + D		Duplicate (that which is selected; if a page is selected in the page browser, it duplicates the selected flipchart page)
Command + E		Eraser (invoke the eraser tool)
Command + F		Fill (invoke the fill tool)
Command + H		Hide the Application (click the Inspire icon to make it reappear).
Command + J		Edit Profile
Command + M		Media (Choose Media To Insert Into Flipchart - such as audio or video)
Command + N		New (create a new flipchart)
Command + O		Open (open an existing flipchart)
Command + P		Print Flipchart
Command + S		Save Flipchart
Command + T		Text (invoke the text tool)
Command + U		Customize Toolbar (Edit Profile - Commands)
Command + V		Paste (whatever was copied, such as with Command + C)
Command + W		Close Flipchart
Command + X		Cut (object has to be selected)
Command + Z		Undo what has just been done.
Shift + Command + A		Desktop Annotate (click Desktop Annotate on Toolbar, upper left icon, second down, to return to flipchart)
Shift + Command + C		Connectors (invoke the connectors tool)
Shift + Command + D		Desktop Snapshot
Shift + Command + E		Export (the flipchart page as a bitmap (.bmp))
Shift + Command + G		Grid Designer
Shift + Command + H		Handwriting Recognition
Shift + Command + K		Camera Snapshot
Shift + Command + M		Magic Ink (invoke the magic ink tool)
Shift + Command + N		Notes Browser
Shift + Command + O		Circular Spotlight
Shift + Command + P		Pen (invoke the pen tool)
Shift + Command + Q		Quit
Shift + Command + R		Sound Recorder
Shift + Command + S		Save As
Shift + Command + T		Tickertape (invoke the tickertape)
Shift + Command + U		Clock (invoke the clock)
Shift + Command + Z		ReDo what was undone