How to Select or Deselect a Check Box Using Keyboard Shortcut?
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I have written a couple of posts on the topic keyboard Shortcuts for different application and How to improve efficiency and experience by learning to use keyboard shortcuts. But whenever I login to any account, I use the tab button to move across field box to enter the userid and password and I use the mouse to select or deselect ‘Keep me signed in’ check box.
Only today I realized that I am not aware what’s the keyboard shortcut to select or deselect the check box. Did a bit of Googling and found out that Space bar is used for check box. You may come across check box in various places like ‘Remember Me’ or ‘I accept the policy’ and in all those places do remember to use the space bar to select or deselect a check box.
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regarding the usage of spacebar for selecting/deselecting check box, it only works if the said check box is active. it was mentioned earlier on the issue that the tab button is being used to move across the field box; you can also use that method to activate the check box. once activated, then you can use the spacebar for selecting/deselecting the check box.
furthermore, sometimes we are prompted to agree or disagree on some certain tasks like “are you sure you want to delete item”. in this case, there are ok and cancel buttons and one of them is active (you will see a dotted line around the word [ok] or [cancel]). if you accidentally pressed the spacebar, the active option will be perfromed.
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That’s correct, space bar can work as a click provided that particular button or item is active (has got that dotted line around it).
I use spacebar for options in check box and tab keys
THANK YOU. I’ve wondered about this for a while, but never got around to searching for it until now.
What if it’s a radio button? How do you deselect those?
As my mouse won’t work in safemode, this helped alot. Cheers for the advce
Thanks for the tip! Really helpful.
Thank you!!! This is VERY helpful.
Thank you for putting up this (and other) page. You have certainly helped me and I’m sure you pages have helped many. It is very kind of you to make this available – I didn’t know that this sort of thing was available on facebook
thank you so much. i accidently hit the disable button on my mouse pointer so could not navigate my screen other than the keyboard..and couldn’t have clicked the check box without this post. thanks again!
Thanks! It works in programs too. I have a particular issue where I’m performing an operation that requires me to “uncheck” a box. I have this process scripted with Auto Hot Key and sometimes the box is already unchecked. My script checks the box and I don’t want that.
Any way to send a commend that will only “uncheck” and not “check” the box?