Monday
Jul192010
Mac Essential Keyboard Shortcuts
Mac OS X was designed to allow you do almost everything using a mouse to point, click and select actions from menus. As you become familiar with Mac OS X, you can use keyboard shortcuts to perform common (and not so common) tasks quickly. Here's a list of essential and useful Mac keyboard shortcuts.
Text Editing Shortcuts
- Command+A: Select All text in a document
- Command+C: Copy text
- Command+V: Paste text
Command+X: Cut text- Command+Z: Undo last edit
- Function+Delete: Forward delete
Finder Shortcuts
Command+TAB: Navigate to other open applications, fast (Learn more about Command-Tab) - Command+F: Find a file, document or folder on your Mac
- Command+O: Open selected item
- Option+Drag: Copy file to a new location
- Command+Option+W: Close all windows
- Command+Option+M: Minimize all windows
- Command+Del: Move selected item to Trash
- Command+Option+D: Show/Hide Dock
Common Application Shortcuts
- Command+N: Create new document
Command+O: Open a document- Command+S: Save document
- Command+P: Print document
- Command+Q: Quit active application
Other Useful Keyboard Shortcuts
Command+Click: Right-click- Command+E: Eject CD or DVD
- Command+Option+Shift+Q: Log out immediately
- Command+Option+Eject: Enter Sleep Mode
- Command+K: Connect to a server
- Command+Shift+I: Go to iDisk



Finder shortcuts
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