Controlling Startup Using the Keyboard ande Mouse

In answer to an earlier post, I was given a method for switching startup disks at startup via the keyboard. Hold the control key down while starting.
That particular startup key combination is not among the listed combinations in the apparently incomplete article on the Apple support site: Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts:
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75459>
Go figure. How many others did they leave out, I wonder... holding the mouse button down on startup to open the CD drive is not listed, either.
Does anyone have any idea where there is a complete list? TIA

Hi, Roger!
Some keyboard shortcuts aren't universal and don't work with all Mac models, like the Startup Manager (Option key during startup). Perhaps some commands were intentionally omitted from that particular listing for such reasons, rather than being unintentionally missed.
Here are more/other key commands, if you're interested:
http://davespicks.com/writing/programming/mackeys.html
Gary

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