

PROTIP: Putting your laptop to sleep is an important privacy procedure according to HIPAA and other regulations. In the screen above, notice “Sleep” has no reminder of its Keyboard Shortcut, but there is:

Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcuts Add Keyboard Shortcut to Sleep There is a Keyboard Shortcut for every action NOTE: If you have more than one keyboard, repeat for each keyboard. Click “Modifier Keys” at the lower-right corner.Ĭlick the entry for “Caps Lock ⇪ Key:” and select ⎋ Escape.Type K to reveal a list (without clicking the search box).A reminder of that is to the right of “System Preferences” menu item. Or get that dialog directly from anywhere by pressing (at the same time) control + command + comma. To open System Preferences, click the Apple icon at the upper-right corner to select it

PROTIP: Make the caps lock key work like the Esc key: That happens because I accidentally had my hand too far to the left when I intended to press the A key.Īnyway I’ve gotten used to typing all caps by holding down the shift key with my left or right hand. And the Caps Lock key is too close to keys, causing problems with accidental password entry and lockouts.īLAH: It’s annoying when all of a sudden everything I type is in caps. Special (Modifier) Key Names and Symbols Remap Modifier KeysīLAH: The Esc (Escape) key is too far North on the keyboard and forces some to look down on the keyboard. REMEMBER: “Special” keys on a Mac’s keyboard are represented by both symbols and names:

