Mac Keyboard Delete Key For Windows

Are Apple keyboards, with only a delete key, less efficient in making deletions than conventional keyboards with both a backspace and a delete key? I have been using a Windows desktop at home and my office.

How can the answer be improved? The key for Windows OS is CTRL + M where CTRL is Control Key onyour keyboard. For Macintosh, you are required to use Cmd + MWhere Cmd One Mac keyboard shortcut is using Command-R for recovery. Another is Command V to start in Verbose mode. A third is 'D' to use the Apple Hardware.

Although I have never had a laptop, I have been planning to buy an Apple laptop for use when I travel. However, I recently used an Apple and found its keyboard, in one particular way, to be inferior to the standard keyboards that I have been accustomed to using. Do you agree? A conventional keyboard has two keys to make deletions. The backspace key deletes characters to the left of the cursor. The delete key deletes characters to the right of the cursor.

In contrast, the Apple keyboard has only one key to make deletions. It is the delete key and it deletes characters to the left of the cursor. It appears that if I want to delete characters to the right of the cursor, there is no way to do that directly and simply. Am I correct about that? I must either use a second key or I must first highlight the text and then delete it. Billiards games for 3. Using a non-Apple conventional keyboard, it is also possible to delete an entire word and one adjacent space in only two strokes by using a combination of the control key and the delete key.

The same can be done in the other direction using the control key and the backspace key. How would these two types of deletion most efficiently be done with an Apple keyboard? The reality seems to be that two keys to delete can operate more efficiently, in more directions, than only one (Apple). Do you agree that the Apple keyboard is less efficient in making deletions than the conventional keyboard when using Word software? What is the best way to get around that inefficiency in a MacBookPro? If there is no way around it, should this discourage me from getting an Apple since I do lots of word processing and deletions? Does the Apple keyboard have any advantages over the conventional keyboard that I should be aware of?

• Asked by fn from Granger • 29-Feb-2012. So, in summary, (Thanks mostly to Ricky C's answer below and to some experimenting) for those of you coming from PC's who would like to use the same shortcuts you did with a mac, here is how you do them on a mac: Backwards delete 1 character at a time: Delete Delete 1 word backwards: Option+Delete Frontwards Delete 1 character at a time: Fn+Delete Frontwards delete 1 word at a time: function+Option+Delete Command+Delete: deletes a line Command Key acts like the control key on a PC (command C = copy, command X = cut, comm. V = paste, comm A = select, comm B = Bold, etc.) • Answered by Alice B from Red Lion • 22-Apr-2014 •. George H from Dayton: In order to quickly take screen shots-it will save the image to the desktop: cmd-shift-3: screen shot of entire screen cmd-control-shift-3: screen shot will save in clipboard cmd-shift-4: crosshair will appear and allow you to capture a screen shot of anything on your screen cmd-shift-4 then spacebar: allows you to capture just a window on your screen. When the window is blue and cursor turns into a camera, click the screen with your mouse and it will save an image of the window to your desktop. (adding control to any of the above keystrokes will save the image to the clipboard) Hope that helps. Also, there is an app called Grab that comes with all Macs that does the same thing.

• Answered by Amanda G from Massillon • 06-Mar-2013 •. The Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad is a full-size keyboard. It has a backspace key and a delete key. They are in the exact same locations as the backspace and delete keys on Windows keyboards, and they function in the exact same way (deleting characters to the left and right of the cursor, respectively). There is one cosmetic difference, though. The 'backspace' key on a Mac keyboard is labeled with the word 'delete', and the 'delete' key is labeled with the word 'delete' and a tiny arrow pointing to the right, indicating that the key deletes characters to the right of the cursor.