Since there have been all these Mac-related posts to the List: I'm not a Mac person at all. The closest I've gotten is the purchase of an Ipad (large-screen model) tablet, nearly a year ago, but I rarely use it and never really learned much about using it. I've mainly used it for wireless email, multi- tasking while watching some sporting event -- which seems to work easier and more seamlessly at home for some reason than does a netbook or laptop option. It has been my first real exposure to the Mac OS and things like Safari. At some point I hope to learn more in order to use it better, but this has not been a priority. Anyway, that's not the real point of this post, as the tablet is stylus-centric, and I don't yet have any keyboard for the Ipad. Rather, it has more to do with trying to help someone with an Airbook laptop who used to be a Windows user -- and mostly failing. I know from many, many years of Win usage that there are standard shortcuts that work across most Win programs. (Even if Apple was supposed to be a lot more standardized than Win . . . . ) For example, ALT-F4 will close most Windows programs. (Perhaps Bill G. insisted on that, back in the formative years of Windows ?) I just opened NB to see if it was obeyed there, and at first it did not seem to be, but after repeated ALT-F4s, it finally did close. Likewise, in most Win browsers, CTRL-D will bookmark the current page, and CTRL-B bring up the Bookmarks Directory. *None* of that stuff seems to apply for the Mac laptop, so I suppose there was no carry- over from the Windows world, despite their having a vastly larger user base. O.K., so probably Apple wanted to do its own thing. My query: can anyone point me towards a (preferably printable) chart of table of the common Mac shortcuts and conventions, likely to be obeyed across most Mac apps ? I'm referring to keyboard stuff; the menus -- which look to be a lot more prevalent -- should be more readily navigable by most users. The Mac OS has something akin to the Windows symbol key, but both (so far) remain a mystery to me. Jordan