Hi, this is Gary with MacMost.com. Here are ten more Copy and Paste tricks for your Mac.
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So in the last video I showed you ten Copy and Paste tricks. Here are ten more. Let's
start first in the Photos App. Let's say you go into a photo like this one. You Edit it and you
make some adjustments. I'm going to adjust the colors. I'm going to make some light changes here
and let's say I like what I've done. I can click Done here and I'm done with
this particular photo. With it selected I can go to Image and I can Copy Edit.
Now I can select one, or even several other photos like these. Go to Image and then Paste Edit.
It will apply those same changes to all those other photos. It's great when you have a sequence
of photos of basically the same thing and you want to apply the same adjustments to all of them.
There's actually something kind of similar in Pages. You can select some text and,
of course, you can go to Edit, Copy. But if you look under Format there's
also Copy Style. If you Copy Style and then select other text and then go to Format,
Paste Style notice the keyboard shortcuts are just Option Command C and Option Command V,
then it will apply that style to the text you have selected.
A lot of people don't realize that you can use Copy and Paste in iMovie
to copy a whole sequence of different elements from one project to another. So,
for instance, I'll go into this iMovie project here and I'm going to select
three different things. I've got two different videos. One with some filters and color changes
and title. I'm going to do Command C to Copy and then I'm going to exit this project and go
into another one. I'm just going to go to Edit and then Paste. Then I've pasted those elements
here. It's great if you've created say a title sequence or closing sequence and want to reuse
it over and over again in different projects. Also notice you can select a video clip like
this and then Copy and then go to another clip like this one here and then go to Edit, Paste
Adjustments and paste all the adjustments or just specific ones. So I could add all of them here and
you can see how it makes this clip look like this one by using all of the changes I've made to it.
Now when you Copy and Paste a link and send it to somebody they go to the entire webpage.
What if you wanted them to see a specific part of that page? Well, you can actually do a web link
that will highlight some text on the page. Now to do this I'm going to switch to the
Chrome browser. I encourage people to keep other browsers around even though I use Safari as my
main browser. I keep Chrome around for various little things and this is one of them. So I'm
going to select some text here on the page in Chrome and then I'm going to Control Click,
two-finger click on the trackpad or right click on the Mouse, and instead of choosing Copy I'm
going to use Copy Link to Highlight. So now if I were to Paste that link,
like maybe I would include that in an email message or a text message,
notice that it has this special text here at the end that points that exact part of the page. If I
look at it you can see how it highlights that. Now the cool thing about these links is even
though you can't make these links in Safari you can actually use them. So if somebody clicks on
it and they are using Safari as their browser you get the same URL here and when they use it
in Safari notice how Safari correctly highlights the text. As a matter of fact it does it better
job than Chrome on this end of things. Hopefully we get the ability to create
these links at some point in a future version of Safari as well.
In the Calendar App you can Copy and Paste events. But the cool thing is you can decide
what date the new event appears. So I can select this event here and use Command C
to Copy. Now if I want it to appear on a specific day all you need to do is click
in that day. Notice nothing changes. It doesn't indicate that I've clicked there.
But if I do Command V to Paste it will actually put the event there and I can click somewhere
else and paste again. It's going to use the same time but it will change the day for that
event. So it makes it easy to take, say, a previous event, like a dentist appointment,
and Copy it and then Paste it somewhere else without having to start from scratch.
So an interesting thing happens if you go to the Applications Folder on your Mac and then
you were to select an application, like let's select Maps here, and then Copy.
Now if I were to go into Preview and create a new document from the Clipboard you'll actually
get the icon. I get all the different versions of the icon at different resolutions here. If
I wanted to use this in another app, like say put it into a Pages document, the way to do that would
be to make some sort of selection here in the image. Then do Command A to grab the whole thing,
Copy. Now I have an actual image and if I switch to Pages here I can Paste that image
in. An easier way to do that would be to use File, Get Info and then select the icon here.
Command C to Copy and then go and paste it in directly like that,
skipping Preview. That second message works for Folders and Files as well.
Now speaking of Files you can, of course, Copy and Paste files from
one folder to another. I showed you how to do that in the last video. But you
can also go to Edit Copy and if you hold down the Option Key notice Copy changes
to Copy As Pathname. So now you can get the full pathname for any file.
Now if you just Copy the file in many cases like in the case of this image
here you can actually then go and Paste the file into a document, like in Pages,
and it will actually import the image. Which is another way to do a File Import.
Now when editing text most apps that have text will actually have a second clipboard.
This clipboard is part of old Linux systems. The way it works is this. You use Control K,
so it is Control not Command, to Kill Text. So it is equivalent to Cut. Then you use Control
Y to Yank it back. Now the cool thing about this is it doesn't effect the regular clipboard. So I
can Copy the word, this, into the Clipboard like that. Then I can do Control K to kill the that
word there. I can then Command V to Paste this and then Control Y to yank back the second word.
If you ever use Spotlight for things like calculations note you can Copy
the results. So I'm going to do Command Space for Spotlight. Then I'm going to do a fairly complex
formula there and you can see I get an answer. Now, without having to do anything else,
I can just simply do Command C to Copy. When I switch to another app and do Command V to
Paste it pastes the results. You can actually use this in a few other cases as well. For instance,
if I do Weather Denver like that you can see I get the result there. Clicking on
that will take me to the Weather App. I can also do Command C and then I can
Paste it here and it gives me a link that I can then use to go into the Weather App.
Now one last one I'm going to show you is Universal Clipboard. You can Copy and Paste
between your Apple devices. It's important, of course, to follow Apple's instructions
including having them each signed into the same Apple ID, having Bluetooth and WiFi turned On,
and Handoff options turned On. You can read more about it at this page. Once you
have that going you can, say, select some text in one device, so here on an iPhone,
and Copy. Then on another device you can do Command V to paste. It will paste the text
in it. It should be instantly but note that it only sticks around for a certain period
of time. So whatever was in the Clipboard on my Mac before would have returned to the
Clipboard after a minute or two if I didn't do anything with Universal Clipboard by pasting it.
So I hope you found these Copy and Paste tricks useful. Thanks for watching.