Also note there is a control that determines what happens when you press the fn key. So it kind of mimics how the iPhone virtual keyboard looks with that little globe at the bottom left hand corner. You can use the Globe key to easily access the special characters like emoji. Older keyboards will just have fn on this key and not the Globe. Now the fn key is also called the Globe key now. But however you set it the fn key will reverse what those F keys do. Some people may never need to use F1, F2, and F3 at all while others might use graphics apps or audio apps that use these all the time. It really depends on how you want to use these keys. Then to get the opposite you hold the fn key down and press those same keys. So depending upon whether you have this checked or not checked you'll get either the special functions, like volume control, when you press those keys or you'll get the F keys like F1, F2, F3. If you look in System Preferences in Keyboard and then you look at this checkbox here it determines how the fn key and the F keys interact. If the app you're using uses those special keys as shortcuts then you would have to use the keys in this mode. But they can also be used to send the signals for the F keys to the app that you're using. The F keys can either be used as special function keys, things like the two keys on the left being screen brightness and the three keys on the right controlling volume. Primarily what you use this for is to change the functionality of the F keys at the top of the keyboard. Now the fn key is being used more and more in modern macOS. But the Shift key also works to capitalize any letter that you type. The Shift key is often used in conjunction with Command and the other modifier keys for more keyboard shortcuts. There is a simple symbol for this that you'll see used in the Menu Bar as well.
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For instance Control left and right help you navigate full screen apps and desktop spaces in Mission Control. Sometimes it's used without the Command key. The Control modifier key is used as well for lots of things. So if you want to be technically correct you should call this the Option key but calling it the Alt key is fine. On some Mac keyboards, particularly older ones, you'll find both the word Option and Alt on this key. On Window's keyboards Alt is used instead of Option. Sometimes the Option key is referred to as the Alt key. It also has a special symbol that you'll see used in the Menu Bar and documentation. The Option key is probably the most used modifier key after Command. There's a special symbol on the Command key and you'll often see this in the Menu Bar and in documentation to indicate Command. You'll find that most keyboard shortcuts require the Command key and a letter or the Command key plus other modifier keys and a letter. The Command key is the primary modifier key. You can use the Command key on either side of the keyboard and it will work the same. In most cases it doesn't matter which one you use. You'll find Shift, Option, and Command here as well. Now some of these modifier keys have duplicate keys on the right side of the keyboard. So, for instance, you might say Command Option Control and then a letter to issue a keyboard shortcut command. If you wanted to Copy or Paste you might use Command C or Command V. So, for instance, if you wanted to quit an app you might use Command and then Q. They don't usually do much by themselves. Modifier keys are primarily used to modify other keys. Command, Option, Control, Shift, and the fn or Globe key. Let's start our tour with the Modifier Keys. But the keys themselves are pretty much the same.
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Of course each iMac comes with its own color matched keyboard as well as white keys as opposed to the black keys of the MacBook Pro keyboard. It actually looks pretty similar if you get one of the current iMacs as well. The current one looks like this if you get one of the new MacBook Pros. So the Mac Keyboard has changed over the years.
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