We’re going to start with a 3 for one: cut, copy and paste.
Because if you don’t know how to do these basic commands on Mac, how are you even functioning
in life?
Command X will quickly cut any selected material, while command C will copy the selection and
Command V will paste the selection in your chosen location.
I say this works to cut, copy and paste materials because this works not only on text, but on
files in Finder.
You ready for more Mac keyboard shortcuts?
Then let’s go.
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Today, I’m sharing the best keyboard shortcuts for Mac.
These are my most-used shortcuts.
So, let’s get back to the list.
Being able to quickly bring up your spotlight search will save you a ton of time.
Simply hit command and spacebar and your spotlight search bar will appear.
This shortcut isn’t only great for quickly finding and pulling up apps, it’s also great
for sums, searching the web, and converting currency!
What do ya know?
Another shortcut I use every single day is to quickly find words in documents, webpages
or my notes app.
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.
And like I mentioned, I use this in my Notes app too because the default built-in search
in Notes will search all your notes.
So, you can just select the note you want to search in and hit command f, then find
the word, or phrase you need.
Okay if you want to quickly zoom in or out on a page, you can do that too.
Command + will zoom in on a page and then just hit command - to zoom back out.
If you want to quickly select all, why do that manually with your mouse?
If you’re not using command A to select everything in a document, are you really living?
No, you’re wasting precious, precious time.
Alright, let’s talk about undoing and redoing actions in a snap, or keyboard shortcut as
it were.
Command Z will undo the previous action for you, and this works, well, like basically
everywhere on Mac.
I use this all the time when I’m editing or in a Google doc or just existing.
But, don’t worry, you can redo the undo if you performed that action in haste, simply
add the shift key to the shortcut.
So shift, command, z will redo what you just undid.
Ok if you want to quickly minimize an app or window or all apps and windows, you can
do that too.
Command M will minimize your current window or current app.
But, let’s say you want to quickly minimize all open windows and apps, just hit option
command M to do so.
Keep in mind this is minimizing them, not closing them.
Which, you can certainly quickly close an open window or app as well.
Simply hit command Q to close an open window or app.
And speaking of quitting apps, if you need to force quit an app that’s not responding
- because we’ve all been there staring at the spinning wheel of death - well 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.
Now you can close the unresponsive trouble makers.
Next, you can quickly switch between open apps.
Once again, this is one of my most-used shortcuts.
Like one of the first things I learned when I got a Mac back in the day.
Just hit command and the tab key to quickly toggle between all your open apps.
And just like you can toggle between apps, you can also toggle between open tabs in chrome,
safari, or firefox.
This time, you’ll hold down the control button and hit tab to toggle through each,
well, tab.
Weee look at me go.
And while we’re having fun with tabs, you can also quickly open and close tabs too.
So to open a new tab just hit command T. Then if you want to close the current tab you’re
in, the current tab - I will repeat that again - just hit command W.
So another good shortcut, if you’re browsing a long doc or webpage, is to jump to the top
or bottom quickly.
You can scroll to the top or bottom of a page using the command key and either the up or
down arrow.
So command up will pop you up, obviously, and command down arrow will pop you down.
Okay, let’s talk about taking screenshots.
This shortcut actually has 3 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
given the screenshot tool that you can use to drag a box over the desired area that you
want to take a snapshot of.
Once you release the mouse, the screenshot is snapped.
Or, the third option is you can hit shift command 5 to take a screenshot or start a
screen recording, which is pretty neat.
This last one works on macOS Mojave or later by the way.
And by default, these screenshots are saved on your desktop.
Okay now that we snapped a bunch of random screenshots, let’s quickly move them to
trash and empty our trash bin.
To move a selected item to the trash bin, just hit command delete and blamo that item
is as good as trashed.
Then, to empty the trashbin quickly, hit shift command delete and your trash will be emptied.
And remember, once you empty that trash bin there is no recovering the items.
You’ve been warned.
So, let’s say you’re in an app and you want to quickly open your app preferences.
With the app open, hit command comma and voila, there are the app preferences for ya.
Okay, did you know you can quickly get a dictionary definition for a selected word on Mac?
Well, you can and there’s actually a couple of ways to do so.
So if you’re reading an article on the web and you come across a word you don’t know,
with the word selected, hit control command d and you’ll be given a definition of that
selected word.
But, if you’re a huge google docs user like me, there’s a different shortcut for this
in docs.
So from your Google Doc, select the word you need help defining, and hit command shift
y.
To the right, up pops a dictionary definition for you.
How neat is that?
Alright, last but not least, it can be really helpful to quickly bring up your lock screen
- assuming you don’t use hot corners that I’ve talked about in another Macbook productivity
video that I will link to down below, you can do this with a few different keyboard
shortcuts too.
The shortcut you use here will depend on your Mac version and your honestly on your keyboard
version.
My go to is to hit command control Q from my bluetooth keyboard to bring up my lockscreen.
But, you can hit control shift and eject button OR control shift power button depending on
your mac version.
It all does the same thing - they bring up your lock screen.
So those are my picks for the best keyboard shortcuts for Mac.
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What are your favorite shortcuts?
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