Navigate the Dock from Your Keyboard

Want to access the Dock with your keyboard? Press Control-F3 to enter the Dock's keyboard access mode. Then you can press a letter corresponding with an item name to select it; press Return to open it, Command-Q to quit the selected application, or Escape to exit keyboard access mode. You can also use the arrow keys, Tab key, and other keyboard navigation keys to move around the Dock items. This might be a nice way to launch and switch among applications, especially if you change the keyboard shortcut (in the Keyboard Shortcuts view of the Keyboard & Mouse preference pane) to something easier to invoke.

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