LaunchBar Help

Press ⌘-Space to activate LaunchBar

Enter an abbreviation

For example, type GB to select GarageBand.

Press ↩ to open the selected item

Or click the item to get a menu with other actions like Copy, Show in Finder, etc.

Press ⇥ to send the selected item

Lets you specify a target item - e.g. an action, an application, a contact, a search template, a folder, etc.

Press → to navigate

A right pointing triangle indicates that you can navigate to access sub-items like folder contents, an application’s recent documents, the songs in an album, etc.

Press Space to enter text

If the selected item requires some additional text input (like the search term for a web-search), press Space and start typing.

Press and hold ⌘-Space for “Instant Send”

Sends text or files selected in other applications to LaunchBar.