The document discusses various lesser-known functions of the Esc key, highlighting its utility in navigating applications, clearing the Spotlight search field, and hiding the mouse cursor. It provides practical shortcuts for users to enhance their efficiency while using their devices. The Esc key serves as a versatile tool for quickly escaping from tasks or clearing screens.
The document discusses various lesser-known functions of the Esc key, highlighting its utility in navigating applications, clearing the Spotlight search field, and hiding the mouse cursor. It provides practical shortcuts for users to enhance their efficiency while using their devices. The Esc key serves as a versatile tool for quickly escaping from tasks or clearing screens.
The document discusses various lesser-known functions of the Esc key, highlighting its utility in navigating applications, clearing the Spotlight search field, and hiding the mouse cursor. It provides practical shortcuts for users to enhance their efficiency while using their devices. The Esc key serves as a versatile tool for quickly escaping from tasks or clearing screens.
The document discusses various lesser-known functions of the Esc key, highlighting its utility in navigating applications, clearing the Spotlight search field, and hiding the mouse cursor. It provides practical shortcuts for users to enhance their efficiency while using their devices. The Esc key serves as a versatile tool for quickly escaping from tasks or clearing screens.
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The Esc key has long been the “get me outta here” panacea for many things: canceling a dialog box, getting rid of a button-less splash screen, closing a menu that you clicked open. (Esc is, after all, short for "escape.") But those are only the obvious things. Here’s a handful of less-than-obvious but just-as-handy solutions the Esc key provides.
Take a shortcut back to your original application
You press Command-Tab to switch to another application, pressing Tab several times (or just holding it down) because you’re moving to a program that’s far away on the Application Switcher’s bar. You get halfway across the line of program icons and realize—whoops!—you forgot to copy the material that you wanted to bring with you. Use the awkward Command-Shift-Tab to move backwards? Use the more convenient Command-tilde (~), still pressing the key repeatedly? No! While the Command key is still down, press Esc to return to the program you were working in before the premature press of Command-Tab.
Erase and get out of the Spotlight menu
If you want to erase what you’ve typed in the Spotlight menu's search field, you don’t have to tediously delete it a character at a time: press Esc to instantly wipe the field clean so you can start again. The Spotlight menu often stores what you last typed in it unless you erase it so that you can make a second choice from the results list. If your search was fruitless—or mistaken—it’s a good idea to erase the contents of the field before you close the menu so you can start fresh on a new search. Press Esc twice: once to erase the field, and a second time to close it.
Hide your browser cursor
For a relatively tiny thing, the mouse cursor can be an annoying distraction when it happens to be in the wrong spot on your screen while you’re viewing a Web page. It’s like a fly landing on your TV screen. Whether you’re in Apple’s Safari or Mozilla
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Firefox, press Esc and the cursor disappears instantly, cooperatively reappearing as soon as you move the mouse.
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