Keyboard shortcut missing?

I use keyboard shortcuts a lot and apple+1 for opening and closing the iTunes window was one I used a lot. In iTunes 7, that seems to be missing, or maybe I can't find it in the help file... anyone know that could help?
Thanks
Sami

Actually, I think you just figured it out, the cmd-L does work to show the current song, you can see it under the file menu, and if the window is closed, when you press it it brings up the itunes window!

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Just noticed that the 2 or 3 app specific keyboard shortcuts I set up in sys prefs are no longer listed. They work, but don't show up in sys prefs for keyboard shortcuts.
This means I can't edit the existing ones if need be. I also don't exactly remember them all and it would be nice to replicate them for friends or other computers in the future.
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rkny

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On a windows 7 tablet, on the desktop, if I clicked a field (e.g. in Windows Explorer) a small keyboard icon appears with a shortcut to the on-screen-keyboard (OSK).
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Within 5 minutes of issuing a new Windows 8 tablet this problem was noticed by the end user, rendering the device almost useless if you want to work at any pace - and it was promptly handed back. Very frustrating and annoying as this feature appears
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There is no point in explaining why MS has decided to do things this or that way and what philosophic reasons they can come up with. MS needs to understand that software has to be accepted by the users and should not irritate them.
But this is irritating.
I thought one of the main concerns of MS was to be as intuitive as possible and provide a most satisfying user experiance - this is definetly not.
Has anyone at MS ever tried to e. g. rename several files in a directory with the touch keyboard? Especially when you get to the bottom of the screen. Then you not only need to have show/hide the keyboard permanently, you even have to bother moving it or
resize the window. That is NO GOOD USER EXPERIANCE!
I'd find it intuitive, if there was a way for developers in WPF or in Windows Forms to tag any UI element if it
Needs a keyboard (making the touch keyboard appear automatically) or
Would like a keyboard (showing a symbol next to the box, just like the X in WindowsStoreApps.TextBox, to trigger the keyboard or make it pop up automatically, if the keyboard had an option that can be set by the user to respond to these UI elements) or
Can have a keyboard (behaviour as is now)
Once an application was built this way, users would intuitively be able to navigate through their beloved apps haveing the keyboard at hand when they will need it anyway, being able to access it just with a twitch of the hand if they want it and not being
annoyed by it when they normally would not need it AND not being annoyed by permanently having to show/hide/show/hide that dratted thing by making miles of hand movement for nothing.
For applications that are not tailormade this way some options to adjust the keyboard behaviour would help, too. Just provide an option to hook the keyboard to any focus change, and give users a selection of options to what major control types the keyboard
should respond. For geeks you could even provide white list where they can add the GUIDs for classes the keyboard should show up automatically, a black list where the keyboard has to disappear and a gray list where the keyboard comes up on enter and disappears
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or even the MS Windows OSK???????? In this point I contradict the explanation in the otherwise quite interesting article about the
Design Concept because typing in numbers has more often to do with maths than with telephoning or switching TV channels. And calculators have the 1,2,3 in the bottom row, as have HW keyboards. The other misconception lies therin that you don't need to find
1,2,3 quicker with your eyes when you are typing lots of numbers e. g. into spreadsheets. The fingers of HW keyboard, calculator or cash register users are so used to the conventional position of the digits that won't be easy to reshape. Additionally when
typing in quantities of numbers right handed users (90% of world population) will have the hand rest on the keyboard, the thumb on 0 and index finger, middle finger, ring finger doing their respective columns low value low down, high value high up. Who
is dialing phone numbers or changing TV channels this way? But what will users do more often with the numpad - especially when dealing with loads of input data?
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is annoying, too! Even with the peek thingy, since you need two hands.
Why is there no indication what special characters are hidden behind a long press? It's possible when you press Ctrl, despite most people already knowing what Ctrl+C means. e. g. where is the paragraph sign "§"on the touch keyboard? Or have
you left it out, so lawyers can't sue you for developing this touch keyboard ;-) You have added a set of emojos, but forgotten to put a character on that is on virtually any other keyboard??? Rather give us a layer user/developers could fill with their own
set of special characters and swap the Ctrl hints for a special character preview.
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Hi there,
I switched to Mac today from PC and am having quite a bit of trouble with the keyboard. Is there an equivalent to the Home, End, Page Up and Page Down keys that I can use? I tried searching for help online but couldn't find anything.
I'm not sure if this is part of the problem but I have a French keyboard.
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This is kind of a slight complaint about Apple having discarded a very useful shortcut for windows navigation: ctrl + > (forward to the next window of the active application) and ctrl + < (backward).
Admittedly, these shortcuts were not officially documented, instead ctrl + tilde (or: accent) was and is indicated for obtaining the same effect. But I think most people will consent that these are impractical (or, with less composure, very bothersome to use compared to ctrl + >, which was easily to press with o n e hand ;-)) ).
So, please, dear Apple after sales service, listen to the customer, and resuscitate those shortcuts (or bring up something else of even usefulness. Ctrl + F4 is definitely not the right answer, since you leave the active application here. There must be a reasonable way to go through all windows of a given application, for the sake of GUI usability) ! Thank you.

You are talking to other users, not Apple. Go to http://www.apple.com/feedback to talk to Apple. BTW, did you know you can change most keyboard shortcuts yourself using software provided with every Mac? Look under the keyboard control panel of System Preferences.

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