Hey friends!
I’m Tasia and these are my favorite 15 Mac keyboard shortcuts.
Some of these shortcuts are oldies, but goodies and if you don’t feel like watching a whole
video, I’ve got you covered with a reference guide in the description below.
In no particular order, first up is spotlight search.
Simply hit command and spacebar and your spotlight search bar will appear.
This shortcut isn’t only great for quickly pulling up apps, it’s also great for sums,
searching the web, and converting currency!
Another shortcut I use everyday is to quickly find words in documents.
From a document or webpage in Chrome, Safari, or Firefox, just hit command and F to search
for a word.
All occurrences of that word will be highlighted for you.
Next up, use option and click for more, well, options.
For example, if you want to diagnose some wifi issues, press your option button and
click on your wifi symbol and woah, look at all these extra options!
The fourth shortcut on my list is to select all.
If you’re not using command A to select everything in a document, are you really living?
No, you’re wasting precious time.
A follow up to select all, are the copy and paste shortcuts which I’m bundling together
for your pleasure.
Command C will copy selected text, or photos, while command V will paste that selection.
Ta-da!
I believe we’re at number 6 on my list, and that’s closing an app window.
There are actually 2 shortcuts for this.
I don’t know why.
From an open app hit command W or command Q to quit that app.
Speaking of quitting apps, if you need to force quit an app that’s not responding,
you can do that too.
Hit command option esc and a pop up will appear showing your running apps and any that aren’t
responding.
Number 8: adjust volume and brightness at smaller intervals.
Like quarters.
To adjust brightness, hold down option and shift and the F1 and F2 keys.
Or if you're on the MacBook 2018, hold option, shift and the brightness icon.
To adjust sound, hold down option and shift and the F10 or F11 key, or your sound icon
on the touchbar.
Next, quickly switch between apps.
This is probably my most-used shortcut.
Just hit command and the tab key to quickly toggle between all your open apps.
Just like you can toggle between apps, you can also toggle between open tabs in chrome,
safari, or firefox.
Just hold down the control button and hit tab to toggle through each, well, tab.
Another good shortcut, if you’re browsing a long doc or webpage, you can quickly scroll
to the top of bottom of a page using the command key and either the up or down arrow.
If you’re anything like me and you have multiple windows in the same app open - like
I do here with my dual monitor setup, hit command and what I call the squiggly key,
which I think is the twiddle key?
Anyway, the name doesn’t matter, the point is if you activate this shortcut, you’ll
quickly toggle between open windows, no need for a mouse click.
Up next, quickly open your app preferences.
With the app open, hit command comma and voila, there are the app preferences.
Coming in at number 14: take screenshots.
This shortcut also has two options depending on your preferences.
To snap a photo of your entire screen, hit shift command 3.
To snap a photo of a particular area of your screen, hit shift command 4 and you’ll be
able to drag a box over the desired area.
Once you release the mouse, the screenshot is snapped.
By default, these are saved on your desktop.
Last but not least, quickly lock your screen at any time.
Wouldn’t you know there are multiple ways to do this too?
Hit the control shift and eject button OR the power button depending on your mac version.
Or hit command, control, q.
Did I miss any good ones?
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