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  1. Function Keys On Macbook Pro With Touch Bar
  2. F Keys On Macbook Pro
One of the biggest selling point with the new MacBook Pro released late 2016 is the nifty new touch bar which placed the old function keys which no one ever used. I've never been a Mac user before but switched to the MacBook, not because of the touch bar, but because of the overall operating system being more impressed with iPhones and iOS devices in recent years and also having the ability to run Windows through virtual windows which run quite smoothly from reviews and now from personal experience.

After the novelty of the touch bar (which is quite funky but I still hardly ever use) wore out, I started to notice that I did in fact miss having the function keys. Naturally one does not use the function keys for every application possible but where it became the most noticeable was working with applications like Microsoft Excel or even Windows in general being used to shortcut keys which we have engrained into muscle memory over the years for us PC users.

While it's not necessarily a hard thing to press the ‘fn' key at the bottom left of the keyboard to bring up the function key options on the touch bar in an application, it can get quite tedious when working on multiple things or numerous spreadsheet cells for quick edits and you know you're not doing it right when it's quicker to move your hand to a mouse and double click when compared to keyboard shortcuts.

Fn-Delete: Forward delete on keyboards that don't have a Forward Delete key. Or use Control-D. Control-K: Delete the text between the insertion point and the end of the line or paragraph. Fn–Up Arrow: Page Up: Scroll up one page. Fn–Down Arrow: Page Down: Scroll down one page. Fn–Left Arrow: Home: Scroll to the beginning of a document. Fn key on MacBook Pro - posted in Ask for Help: Any ideas on how to access fn key on a macbook pro? If this isnt possible now perhaps in the future please?

  • This issue could explain why the 13-inch MacBook Pro with function keys temporarily faced extended shipping estimates on Apple's online store last month, as Apple may have implemented a fix.
  • MacBook keyboard has few distinctive sections: Function keys (in light blue), which provides access to various functions in MacBook itself or Mac OS system. By combining them with the FN key, you'll get access to F1 - F12 keys, which can be associated with particular application features (useful in Photoshop for example).

How to Bring Back the Function Keys on a MacBook Pro With a Touch Bar Justin Pot @jhpot May 3, 2017, 1:13pm EDT Apple's been trying to kill the numbered function keys for a long time—the labels F1, F2, and so on have long been pushed to the corner bottom-right corner of keys in favor of function-specific icons.

That being said, after a little bit of searching, I came across this instruction straight from the source an it works a treat.

How To Setup Function Keys on the Touch Bar:

System Preferences

In short, click apple in the top left and select system preferences then: Best sound editing software for mac.

> Keyboard

> Shortcuts

Function Keys In Macbook Pro

> click on ‘Function Keys'

> Click on ‘+' to add an app

> Select the app you want to add function keys to.

If you want to add to multiple apps, you will have to do this process multiple times.

No need to restart computer or do anything fancy, you will find as soon as you click on the app, you should notice that the touch bar instantly shows the function keys. If it doesn't on first try, then maybe try quitting out of the app an load again.

Everyone will probably want this feature for different reasons for different apps but for me where I have found it most useful is for running the Parallels app which I use to run Windows 10 and excel where I'm used to working with formulas and needing function keys for quick edits to cells and the F2 button is used quite regularly.

Hope this helps and please leave some feedback if there are any other useful tips for the MacBook Pro with touch bar.

For more info check to the source from apple which has some other interesting bits of information of other ways to access the function keys:

Function Keys On Macbook Pro With Touch Bar

More information:

F Keys On Macbook Pro

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