>> Unfortunately, when I choose the latter, I still have to use the >> mouse (or trackpad), because I get a window of 4 options come up, and >> I have to click on the "sleep" option. If I wished to shutdown, I >> could just press the enter key, as this is highlighted in blue, but I >> almost never want to shut-down the machine - does anyone know if it's >> possible to change the default, so that I can put my Powerbook to >> sleep just by pressing the power button and then "enter"? > > Try hitting the "S" key for Sleep, or thr "R" for Restart and of > course, the Escape key for Cancel. And another tip I just > learned--when there are two buttons highlighted, one of which is > "fully" highlighted to trigger by the Return key and the other is only > slightly highlighted, hitting the spacebar triggers that one. Hope > that made sense. > ciao, > Vince Great tip! Thanks! And hopefully it will work also in other cases! Silvo Silvo Conticello Albook 17" 1.5GHz/1.5Gb RAM/80Gb HD/OS10.3.5 iMac 1GHz/500Mb Ram/80Gb HD/OS10.3.5/17" display E-mail: silvoc at tiscali.it Cambridge UK