Alt Key Menu Letters- Apple Commands

In just about every program you use, you may have noticed that the toolbar at the top (the one with File, Edit, View, etc.) has underlined letters. The “F” in File has a little underline the “V” in View and so on...

Like this:





If you press your Alt key and a corresponding letter...
For example: Alt+T

The Tools menu opens. So press Alt+F for file, Alt+E for Edit, Alt+V for view - anything with an underlined letter should work.
I like this method, because after the menu opens I can use the arrow keys to move and select what I want.

APPLE USERS

To use a keyboard shortcut, or key combination, you press a modifier key with a character key. For example, pressing the Command key (the key with a Apple symbol) and the "c" key at the same time copies whatever is currently selected. This is also known as the Command-C key combination, Command(or the Apple key)- V will paste.

Here are the modifier key symbols you can see in Mac menus:





So, pressing the Shift, Apple and letter D will get you directly to the desktop.