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Home/Mac OSX/Mac OSX Keyboard Tip – Find or Search Within Application

Mac OSX Keyboard Tip – Find or Search Within Application

Most Apps have a search box that lets you search within the app. The obvious thing is ⌘-F and the text search box opens, like this:

Only, problem is that I really want to get to the Application Search bar that searches for words within the entire applciation.

 

Then I noticed that ⌥ – ⌘ – f will open the app search for almost every application.

Now that makes my keyboard workflow a lot faster. ⌘-F for searching for text in the existing mode, and ⌥ ⌘ F will quickly move the cursor up to the application finder.

Published on:3 August , 2012 Last Modified: August 3, 2012

Categories: Mac OSXTags: keyboard, Mac OSX, tip, trick

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I'm a recovering Network Architect/Engineer who survived 25 years of Corporate IT . You can hire me for contract work, freelance or ad hoc work by the hour.

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