Shortcuts to a System Preference?

In setting up and learning OS X I need to get into System Preferences > 
Network and others frequently.  Is there a shorter way of doing this 
rather than going through the System Preferences?  Once in there you 
have to use the mouse - the tab or arrow keys don't even work.  Another 
example of Mac's odd love affair with the mouse.  So a shortcut would be 
awesome.

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make an alias to /system/library/preferencepanes/network.prefpane and
put the alias wherever is convenient.  double-click the alias (or the
original file) and system preferences opens to the network pane.

> > In setting up and learning OS X I need to get into System Preferences > 

It allowed me to copy it but not to make an alias.  Am I missing 
something?

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command-option-drag the file - it creates an alias of whatever you drag
(instead of the file itself) to wherever you drag it.

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If you cmd-option-drag the file
/System/Library/PreferencePanes/Network.prefPane/

Onto the desktop it will create an alias to that file. You will hold down
the cmd (Applekey) and option key simultaneously while dragging the file
icon.

Additionally, the Apple menu (upper left corner) offers a "Locations" menu
where you have fast access to the Network prefpane.

You can also (10.4 and newer) drag frequently used prefpanes to the top of
the Preferences window for faster access..

-- Gnarlie

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Care to run that last by me again?  I don't see any such feature in my 
copy of System Preferences in 10.4.5.  But I know that it was there in 
one of the earlier OS X versions.
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Steve W. Jackson
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You're right, it must already be an obsolete feature.

-- Gnarlie

I thought that was 10.3 and older?

Greg

> > > > In setting up and learning OS X I need to get into System Preferences > 

That's a cool trick.  Thanks.

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That's pretty good too.

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As others pointed out, it's really before 10.4 that was possible. The fave
bare was replaced with a search field and arrows in Tiger.

-- Gnarlie

> >> You can also (10.4 and newer) drag frequently used prefpanes to the top of
 
Didn't work for me either using 10.4.5.
 

It would be so easy if System Preferences had a drop down 
menu........why they don't is anyone's guess.  OS X is so bizarre.

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you mean like the one in the menu bar called 'view' which lists all of
the preference panes?

> > It would be so easy if System Preferences had a drop down 

Sounds great.  Just where is it?  View in System Preferences has a 
shortcut (Command+L) but that doesn't do anything on my system.  I 
wonder if I have a keyboard shortcut disabled?  If you're in the Finder 
and hit Command+L does that bring up System Preferences?  I was actually 
trying to directly go to one of the areas of the System Preferences.  Is 
this possible?