Illustrator - Erase a straight line (Mac not windows).

Illustrator - I am trying to tweak a logo so it has smooth edges, I am familiar with using the SHIFT key from a starting point and end point of a eraser segment within Photoshop, however is there anything easy like this in Illustrator with using a mac? I saw the windows forum answer suggesting the SHIFT + eraser can be done in a windows platform, but this does not work on my mac.
Any HELP?? Surely this is a simple answer?

Hey Thanks so much Cheryl! .. That works perfectly ...I knew it must be
user-error on my end.
BTW - This is my first time posting on the forum, I think I need to
acknowledge that you answered my question somewhere, but I don't see that
option on this thread?.
Soooo, than you VERY much for your help,
Jo

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