Hi this is Gary with MacMost.com.
In this episode let me show you ten Mac shortcuts that I use everyday.
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So I often talk about shortcuts.
Keyboard shortcuts and other ways to get things done quickly and productively on your Mac.
But which ones do I actually use.
Going through my day there are several shortcuts that I rely on and use all day long.
So first let me admit to not being a big user of full screen mode.
I've got three displays on my desk so I don't really need to go to full screen mode.
I can have lots of windows open with lots of apps and I can see them all at once.
But sometimes I like to take a window like this one and extend it to fill the screen.
A lot of people just call this maximizing the window.
Of course the green button will take you to full screen mode.
Which is what I don't want.
You can take the edges and drag the edges like this and you can even drag the corners
to get to the edges there.
You can go to full screen maximum size for a window by dragging it like that.
But there's a shortcut I use all the time.
You see if you double click anything, like say an edge, it will snap to maximum size.
So I was able to double click the top.
You can double click, say, the right side and it will snap there.
If you hold the Option key down it will do it for both sides.
So, for instance, if I were to hold Option key down and then double click the right side
here it will maximize the right side and the left side.
Now corners will work for both the top and left or the bottom and the right or whatever
corner it is.
So if I double click on a corner like that you can see the corner goes to the edge.
If I hold the Option key down it does it for opposite corners.
So in other words hold the Option key double clicking on any corner of the window will
maximize the window.
I use this all the time.
I've got these two vertical screens on my desk.
I often have one window at the top, one in the middle, and one at the bottom.
It means I want to maximize the sides to go to the sides of the screen.
It doesn't really make sense on this screen but it does on a vertical screen.
So I often also use Option and double click the sides just to bring it to each side.
Because I work with tutorials I need to turn on Do Not Disturb quite often during the day
so I don't get Notifications and Sounds, and Alerts and things like that.
You can go and click on Notification Center, scroll down, and there's the switch for Do
Not Disturb.
You can also do it in System Preferences.
But I like the shortcut of holding the Option key and clicking here on this menu button
at the top right corner.
You can see now it's grayed out which means that Do Not Disturb is turned on.
I can turn Do Not Disturb off by Option clicking on it again.
In System Preferences Energy Saver I have my Mac set to Turn the Display Off After 15
Minutes.
So go to sleep after 15 minutes which is important because a lot of times I distracted by something
else or working on something else and I don't touch my keyboard for 5 or 10 minutes and
I don't want my computer to go to sleep while I'm here.
But it also means that if I know I'm walking away I want the machine to go to sleep right
away.
I don't want it to have to wait 15 minutes for that.
So I like to use the keyboard shortcut for putting your computer asleep immediately which
is Control, Shift, and then either the Eject key or the Power key depending upon what model
Mac you've got.
I'm often copying and pasting things from one document to the other and what happens
when you do that, like here I'm going to select some text on a webpage, is I'll copy and go
over here and I'll paste.
Notice how it not only pastes the text, but does the style, color, font, everything.
Most of the time when I'm pasting I want it to use the style of whatever document I'm
pasting into.
So you can do that if you go into Edit you can see Paste and Match Style which is Option
Shift Command V.
So you basically just add those extra modifier keys instead of Command V. Sometimes it's
a little bit different in different apps so always look in the Edit menu and look for
that or hold down the Option key to see what appears there.
Now I Archive all of my email no matter what it is I just archive it.
Then if I need something later I search for it.
You've got a handy Archive button here at the top of the Mail window.
But you could also use Message and then Archive right here.
The keyboard shortcut for that is Control Command A. So I use Control Command A probably
fifty to a hundred times a day.
Now I chose my email address way back in the mid '90's.
If I knew I would have to type it so many times I probably wouldn't have chosen something
so long.
But it is easy to do Text Replacement on the Mac so I have a text replacement for my email
address that I use constantly.
So when I'm filling out a form like this I can enter just a couple key strokes.
As an example I'm going to do two at symbols @@. As soon as I hit space it replaces it
with my email address or in this case my example email address.
Sometimes I have to hit the Delete key afterwards to get rid of the space there at the end.
You can set this up in System Preferences under Keyboard.
Then go to Text and here you have your replacements.
So all you need to do is hit the Plus button and then Add one.
So you can see here I've added one for @@ and it replaces it with my email address.
Now just about everyday I'm faced with a website where I want to upload an image.
When I go to upload the image I will click on Choose a Photo or Video and it comes up
with an open dialogue box.
It's never in the right place.
So many times I've actually got the file I want to upload right here.
So other people might go and try to navigate through to find this same location.
But you can just drag and drop.
If I were to drag and drop this image over here you could see it goes to the exact location
and even selects that file.
Now I can just hit return or click Choose.
Also a lot of times you can just drag and drop things.
Here there's an obvious way to simply drag and drop an image right into the uploads zone
for this site.
Sometimes there just a little button there and you can drag and drop an image onto the
button to set that as the image to upload.
So, of course, like everybody else I launch apps throughout the day and there are so many
different ways to launch apps.
My go to is Spotlight.
So Command Space and I start typing the name of the app.
It comes up and then I hit Return to launch the app.
Then if the app is already running I simply use Command Tab to switch between apps.
Then I rarely quit apps.
If I'm using an app like say Pages right here and I want to go to another app and get this
one out of the way I almost always Hide it.
You can do that by doing Hide and the name of the app, Command H is always the keyboard
shortcut.
So I use Command H all day long to hide apps and get them out of the way.
Then I use Command Tab to then go back to that app.
So which shortcuts do you use everyday on your Mac.
Tell me in the comments below.