

So using that as a way to trigger Mission Control is kind of handy. A key like the Control key on the right side of my keyboard isn't ever used. I know I personally use the left modifier keys most of the time. So, if you want to use the Left Command as Command but the Right Command activate Mission Control you can. What's interesting here is in the list not only are there things like the F keys and such but there are modifier keys based on the side of the keyboard that they're on. But you could change these to something else. These are usually assigned to Control Up, Control Down, and F11.
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Another to show you the Windows for the current application and a third to show the Desktop. In Mission Control there are three shortcuts here at the bottom. You could assign the right Command key to do something else. For instance if you have a Command key on both sides of your keyboard but you only ever use the left Command key. There's another part of System Preferences that will reference the modifier keys and allow you to assign special functions to one of the two versions of each modifier key.

But the functions are here if you want to use them.
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But would urge you to instead to take a few days to adjust to how the Mac keyboard works so you're using things just how they are meant to be on the keyboard instead of using a substitution here and then for the rest of your life everything is kind of reversed on the Mac keyboard. I know a lot of people are tempted especially in switching from Windows to maybe switching the Control and the Command keys to the opposite so it works a little bit more like you're used to. Now I don't actually recommend using any of these. Or I can just turn Caps Lock off so I don't accidentally turn it on. So I can use it as an alternative for Command, for instance. What's really useful here is you can change the Caps Lock key to be an alternative for something else instead of Caps Lock. But if I wanted to change Control to actually mean Command I could do so. You can see each one is mapped to its standard function here. This will list the different modifier keys including the Caps Lock key. So first if you want to remap the modifier keys, like change the Command key to Control and vice versa, you can do that in System Preferences and then go to Keyboard and go to the Keyboard section. Then I'm going to show you a third party tool where you can customize the modifier keys even more. The first two methods I'm going to show you just involve using System Preferences. There are several different ways that you can change how these keys work. The modifier keys on your Mac keyboard are the Command, Control, Option, Shift, and also the fn key. Join us and get exclusive content and course discounts. There you could read more about the Patreon Campaign. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of more than 1000 supporters! Go to /patreon. Today let me show you three ways you can customize how the modifier keys on your Mac work. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with. Check out 3 Ways To Customize the Modifier Keys On a Mac at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.
