MacOS Tips

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  • hitting the CLEAR button to enable the numeric keypad on an Apple keyboard [1]
  • Dual 27" display brightness control
    • if using an apple kb
      • main monitor - brightness button on kb
      • 2nd monitor - control + brightness button on kb [2]
  • turn off dual menu bars (which is the default setting for a new user)
    • uncheck "Displays have separate spaces" in System Preferences /Mission Control. And log out and log in.[3]
  • Turn off default two-sided printing [4]
  • hold down option to change Finder column width for all columns -- new width becomes default. [5]
  • To display menu bar on all connected monitors:
    • System Preferences / Mission Control / check "Displays have separate Spaces" [6]
  • System seems unresponsive after leaving it alone for a few mins
    • check if Spotlight is indexing a newly connected drive, if so, turn Spotlight off

Finder

  • Shortcut to expand all folders in Finder's list view: "mouse/trackpad-clicking the triangle while holding the Alt/Option or Command key"[7]

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