2 quick tips for changing your Mac’s volume
Mac Tip #455, 22 September 2010

At the 2010 CreativeTech conference I presented a session of 50 MacTips. These two were about changing your Mac’s volume:

1. Change volume silently
2. Change volume by ¼ steps

I figure the topics that interested the people who attended my session would also benefit my readers. These are quick tips, with few instructions. Enjoy.

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Change volume silently

Usually if you press the hardware keys on your Mac’s keyboard to increase or decrease the volume you hear a ‘blip’ sound for each increment. To change the volume silently hold down the Shift (⇧) key while you press the volume key.

Quarter volume increments.

Change volume by ¼ steps

Each time you press the hardware volume key on the keyboard it increases or decreases the volume by one unit. Hold down the Shift (⇧) and Option (⌥) keys together while you press the volume key. Now the volume will change by quarter units.

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