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How do you control a dialog box with the keyboard on a Macintosh?

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An Undisclosed Location | 4 months ago (2 days, 16 hours after post)

Whoa, sorry Limon. I just got to your invite. The “Tab” button should normally cycle through such things; however, I’m not 100% sure if that feature works on all programs in OS X. At the very least, pressing the “Enter” key should select the high lighted options. If it doesn’t allow you to tab, for some reason, then it’s probably one of those bizzare hold-over features from the early days of Mac OS (like the one button mouse.) I’d be happy to test this for you, but I’m on a friend’s PC at the moment. I’ll invite Marco just in case.

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San Francisco, CA, US | 4 months ago (2 days, 18 hours after post)

OS X Should automatically be set up to “Tab” through the buttons, though you’ll only see a highlight appear around the selected button rather than the default blue glow.

To “press” the highlighted button, hit the Space Bar. Hitting Enter will select the Blue default button, but you can tab to every button in a dialog with the Tab key, then press it with space bar.

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An Undisclosed Location | 4 months ago (3 days, 14 hours after post)

Thanks guys.

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An Undisclosed Location | 4 months ago (3 days, 21 hours after post)

neat, I didn’t know you could do that!

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