Take control of your Mac OS X Finder windows

There are numerous ways to customize your Mac’s appearance, and one of the things I love about OS X is the ability to quickly change the views of your Finder windows using easy to remember keyboard shortcuts.

Here’s a list of some of the commonly used keyboard shortcuts that will allow you to customize the way you view files in Mac OS X’s Finder.

• Command + Option + T hides the toolbar across the top of your window
• Command + Option + S hides the sidebar on the left edge of your window
• Command + [ takes you back
• Command = ] takes you forward
• Command + Up Arrow opens enclosed folder
• Command + Control + Up Arrow opens enclosed folder in a new window
• Command + Down Arrow opens the highlighted item

Here is a more complete collection of keyboard shortcuts, straight from Apple.