Novice and veteran use Windows on a Mac keyboard. Why just because switching platform to throw a perfect keyboard? Some people just like to feel the keys rather than keys from Apple. Any wired USB keyboard or Bluetooth-based wireless keyboard can work on your Mac.
In fact, even Apple Mac Mini sold without a keyboard or mouse, which requires customers to provide their own. Using non-Apple keyboards is only one small problem: find some equivalent keyboard.
Windows and Mac Keyboard Differences
At least five keys on the keyboard Windows on a Mac keyboard has a different name or symbol, which may make it difficult to follow instructions relating to the Mac. For example, software manuals may tell you to hold down the keyboard seems to be missing the Windows command key (⌘). At that; look a little different.
This is most commonly used on Mac five special keys and their equivalent Windows keyboard.
| Mac key | Windows key |
| control | Ctrl |
| Options | Alt key |
| Command (cloverleaf) | Windows |
| delete | Backspace |
| return | Entry |
Mac use them to control a variety of functions, including the use of Mac OS X startup shortcut.
For new Mac users, other useful information to know which menu key symbol corresponds to which key on the keyboard. Symbols used in the Mac menu for Mac novices and possibly more with the veteran may be some strange mouse than a keyboard user.
Command and Option keys exchange
Apart from a slightly different name for Windows and Mac keyboard, they also exchanged the position of two commonly used modifier keys: Command and Option keys.
If you are a longtime Mac users to use Mac, Windows key (the equivalent of the Mac Command key) may occupy the physical location of the Option key on a Mac keyboard. Again, you want to find in the Mac's Command key Alt key Windows keyboard. If you are accustomed to using a modifier key on the old Mac keyboard, at the time of re-learning the key position may be in trouble for some time.
How to reallocate key position on a Mac
Not have to relearn key locations, and use the "System Preferences" in the "Keyboard" panel reassign the modifier keys, which can keep already have muscle memory.
Directly on the map --- opening the System Preferences - Keyboard - will see the following
Make your changes and click "OK" button, then close the "System Preferences."
修改键重新映射后，在Mac上使用任何Windows键盘都不会有任何问题。
键盘快捷键
Mac新手但精通使用键盘快捷键来加快工作流程的人员可能会对Mac菜单系统中用来指示何时可以使用键盘快捷键的表示感到有些惊讶。
如果键盘快捷方式可用于菜单项，则该快捷方式将使用以下符号显示在菜单项旁边：
| 菜单项符号 | 键 |
|---|---|
| ⌃ | 控制 |
| ⌥ | 选项 |
| ⌘ | 命令 |
| ⌫ | 删除 |
| ⏎ | 返回或输入 |
| ⇧ | 转移 |
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