On my Mac Desktop the shortcut to show all open windows is F10 I believe, well on my MacBook Pro F10 is to illuminate the keyboard. Everything I'm finding on google is saying F3, F9, and F10 those either do the keyboard or the volume. F11 will hide all windows..... F12 goes to the dashboard. help?
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This? Its called mission control.
Go to system preferences> gestures> more gestures
You will see it there.
system preference > trackpad > more gesture
mission control > swap up with three fingers
Which MacBook Pro model are you using? Are you running Lion? (OS X 10.7)
To find out go
-> About this Mac. Then you can click More Info to find out the year the laptop was made. Here is mine for example, its the Retina MBP.
I don't have a gestures link in my Trackpad preferences, but I found mission control in my applications. I guess my MBP doesn't have a shortcut for it....
Try hitting the "F3" key. Unless you have the option to have the Function keys act as they would on say a Windows laptop, and you are using a 2011-2012 model MacBook, this should trigger mission control, or as others have said.. try swiping up with 3 fingers on your trackpad.
Go to system prefs> keyboard> and make sure all F1, F2 etc keys are used as standard functions is set to off.
That should enable mission control via F3.
Which MacBook Pro model are you using? Are you running Lion? (OS X 10.7)
To find out go
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How did you make the shot of that? and i'll write it out since I don't know how.
Mac OS X
Version 10.7.4
processor 2.16 GHz intel core 2 duo
memory 2GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
start up disk HD
And I can't find anywhere on what year it is.
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F3 will mute. & I haven't owned a windows since 1998
There are 2 different screenshot methods, one takes a screenshot of the entire screen, the other turns your mouse arrow into crosshairs and allows you to select the area.
Whole screen: Command+Shift+3
Selective Area: Command+Shift+4
Also, from the specs you listed.. I believe that is a Mid-2007 MacBook.
Yeah, its a 2006 i just found it on apple support.
& since I can't figure out how to make the shortcut (without getting rid of my mute brightness and ect.) I'll just keep mission control on my dock. I tend to have two screens if that make sense on my computer (like one on the tv and one on my laptop...) so, I'll just stick with this,
Thanks everyone for the help though, I appreciate it.
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Thats probably the least popular shortcut to Mission Control, but hey if it works, it works! One thing I love about OS X, always multiple ways to do things. Also if you didn't notice yet, Control + down can exit Mission Control/Enter Spaces and Control + left/right arrows will swap between full screen windows.