Nomenclature used on the website

Shortcut key

Here, the term key means a button on your computer keyboard.

A shortcut key is a key used to quickly perform an operation that you frequently use. On an Apple computer, pressing the [command] key in combination with the [S], or โŒ˜S, will save your current work to your computer hard drive. The equivalent on a PC is [Controle]+[S].

Pushing two keys at the same time is much quicker than using your application menu and going ยป File ยป Save โ€” but obviously using the application menu is more intuitive so learn the shortcut keys only for commands you often use.

Below is how I show which special keys to use.

Apple PC (if different) Used here
shift โ‡ง
tab โ‡ฅ
control Windows โŒƒ
alt (or option) alt โŒฅ
command control โŒ˜
enter or return

So, for example โŒฅโŒ˜2 is
โ€” alt (or option)+command+2 on an Apple computer
โ€” alt+control+2 on a PC.

Rollover

When navigating with a touchpad or mouse, you can move the cursor (the pointer) over something like an icon without clicking on it โ€” this is called rollover (called also mouse over or just hover).

Very often this triggers a reaction like a pop-up description, as shown in the example below.

Note that this cannot work on a touch-screen device like a smartphone, because on a touch-screen you can only click (press) but not hover.