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Speeding Up With
Keyboard Commands Is your mouse hand getting a little tired from going in circles all day long? Or maybe you're a little slow with the trackpad on your new Powerbook. Wouldn't it be nice to use both of your hands in a reasonable matter? Well, you can! Your Mac has the ability to do most of your normal tasks using only your keyboard. Learning your keyboard commands may take a little time at first, but you'll gain back that time and more later on. Touch typists will find this particularly easy to learn, but even hunt-and-peckers will find themselves faster on the keyboard then with the mouse surprisingly quickly. If you take a look at the image of the file menu
in the Finder, you'll see A good way to learn the standard keystrokes is to use them whenever you see a keystroke alternative on a menu. Before you know it, your fingers will be typing them automatically. Sometimes you'll see more than just
Common Application Commands
Finder Commands (updated for OSX 10.3)
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to the right of the item "New Finder Window". If you hold down
the Command (Apple) key 
and press the letter N, the Finder will show your Home folder
on the desktop. You'll find the same key combinations in most applications:
one of the many things that Apple did right was to set standards
for things like this right from the beginning. Some applications
even let you create your own keystroke combinations.
+ a letter. These other symbols represent other keys on the keyboard.
These are relatively new symbols, and even Mac veterans have trouble
remembering them, so here's a handy chart: 
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