The “Command” key is like the “Win” key, it triggers the Windows Start Menu.

The following table will tell you what keys combination you can use on a MacBook keyboard to get the same behavior as if you were using a regular PC keyboard: PC keyboard hotkey Make sure your global keyboard hotkeys are unassigned (from the System Preferences / Keyboard / Shortcuts) before you proceed. Very Important: Some of the hotkeys below conflict with your macOS’s default global hotkeys. Make sure you use the RDP Client to remote into the Windows Machine in order for the following keyboard shortcuts to work. This is different from the MacBook’s “Delete” key (which is equivalent to the “Backspace” key). What is important to know is that when using a MacBook’s keyboard, you don’t have all the keys that you usually have on a PC keyboard.Įssentially, you are missing the following keys:

As you can see there are many combinations to achieve the same functionality as on PC, and even some more advanced.In this blog post, I am going to share with you how to get the missing keyboard keys that let you work in MS Windows via the remote desktop client under Mac OS X with the MacBook’s keyboard. These two combinations will only lower or raise the corresponding percentage of the screen, that is, they will scroll only once to view the next piece of content, if what we want is to go down or up completely on the page we will have to use the same combination but this time with the left or right arrow keys, so we will raise or lower the page completely.Įven if we press Shift + Spacebar or just the spacebar We will also achieve the same effect, although this method is not compatible with all applications but almost all web browsers support it. fn + Down Arrow: Like the previous one, we invoke the pagination function but this time down 'Page Down'.fn + Up Arrow: The 'fn' key is found at the bottom left of all modern Mac keyboards, and when combined with the up arrow, which is located at the bottom right of the keyboard, the equivalent of 'Page Up ».with some keyboard shortcuts to carry out this daily action without constantly having to use the mouse. Let's quickly review the options available to us below. If you come from the PC world, you have probably noticed that on the Mac there are no keys on the keyboard that do reference to 'Page Up' and 'Page Down'Both on the MacBook range and on desktop Macs, however this does not mean that you cannot use the same feature on Mac as there are two ways to achieve the equivalent of such paging keys on any Mac keyboard.

Macbook page down shortcut