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Use the space bar

The space bar is the most efficient way to read news in NetNewsWire. It scrolls the description pane if it needs scrolling, otherwise it jumps to the next unread news item. You can go through all your news just by hitting the space bar.

Find out about more keyboard shortcuts

The space bar isn’t the only time-saver—choose Help > Keyboard Shortcuts for a list of more shortcuts that aren’t listed in the menus.

Let NetNewsWire find feeds

When you're on a website that you want to subscribe to, let NetNewsWire find the feed for you.

Just copy the URL of the site from your browser’s address field, click the Subscribe toolbar icon in NetNewsWire, then click the Subscribe button in the sheet that appears—and then let NetNewsWire find the feed for the site.

Subscribe using the Services menu

For fast subscribing, select the text in your browser’s address field, then choose Safari > Services > Subscribe in NetNewsWire while still in your browser. (If you’re using Firefox or another browser, the Services menu will appear in the menu that has the same name as your browser.)

Customize the toolbar

The default toolbar doesn’t contain all the toolbar commands there are. Choose View > Customize Toolbar… to add more toolbar commands.

Customize the dock icon unread count

Some people don’t want the unread count to appear in their dock, and other people like it but they wish it was another color.

You can turn off the unread count—or change its size—via the General preferences pane.

You can change the color of the unread count on the Fonts preferences pane, near the bottom. You can change both the background color and the color of the numbers.

Scan headlines via the dock

If you click-and-hold (or ctrl-click) on NetNewsWire’s dock icon, it will list feeds and the titles of unread news items. Choose an item to open it.

If you hold down the option key, instead of opening the item it will select the item in the headlines list.

Widescreen users: display datelines in the headlines table

If you’re using the widescreen view, you don’t have much room for columns in the headlines table. You can display a dateline below each title instead of using columns.

Choose View > Layout > Show Datelines in Table.

You can also show a summary, or the first sentence or so of each item, in the headlines table. Choose View > Layout > Show Summaries in Table.

Use the Questions & Answers page

The most common questions we get asked are answered on the Questions & Answers page—if you have any questions, that’s the first place to look.