CharlieIf you own a Mac and you’re looking to maximise productivity as much as possible, it’s a good idea to learn as many keyboard shortcuts as possible. You certainly won’t need to memerize all of them but it might be a good idea to save some of the ones you know you’ll be using regularly.
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System Keyboard Shortcuts
- Put your Mac to sleep: Option + Command + Power button
- Put your display to sleep: Control + Shift + Power button
- Log out of your Mac user account: Shift + Command + Q
- Force restart without option to save open files: Control + Command + Power button
- Quit all apps and shut down with option to save open files: Control + Option + Command + Power button
- Display a dialog box to restart, sleep, or shut down: Control + Power button
Show, Display, and Dock Shortcuts
- Show and hide Spotlight Search: Command + Space bar
- Show and hide the Dock: Option + Command + D
- Show the Character Viewer: Control + Command + Space bar
- Display the current app in full screen: Control + Command + F
- Full display screenshot: Command + Shift + 3
- Selection screenshot: Command + Shift + 4
- Open Screen Utility: Command + Shift + 5
Finder Keyboard Shortcuts
- Open the Computer window: Shift + Command + C
- Open the Desktop folder: Shift + Command + D
- Open the Recents folder: Shift + Command + F
- Open the Downloads folder: Option + Command + L
- Open the Documents folder: Shift + Command + O
- Open the Utilities folder: Shift + Command + U
- Open the AirDrop window: Shift + Command + R
- Open a Go To Folder window: Shift + Command + G
- Open the iCloud Drive folder: Shift + Command + I (uppercase i)
- View items in Finder as icons: Command + 1
- View items in Finder as a list: Command + 2
- View items in Finder as columns: Command + 3
- Create a new folder: Shift + Command + N
- Create a new Smart Folder: Option + Command + N
- Show and hide the Sidebar: Option + Command + S
- Show and hide the Path Bar: Option + Command + P
- Show and hide the Status Bar: Option + Command + / (slash)
Document Shortcuts
- Bold and un-bold text: Command + B
- Italicize or un-italicize text: Command + I (uppercase i)
- Underline or un-underline text: Command + U
- Page up: Fn + Up arrow
- Page down: Fn + Down arrow
- Go to beginning of document (Home): Fn + Left arrow
- Go to end of document (End): Fn + Right arrow
- Save document: Command + S
- Print document: Command + P
- Undo: Command + Z
- Redo: Shift + Command + Z
Miscellaneuous Shortcuts
- Cut: Command + X
- Copy: Command + C
- Paste: Command + V
- Select all items: Command + A
- Find items: Command + F
- Minimize the front window: Command + M
- Close the front window: Command + W
- Force quit an app: Option + Command + Esc
- Switch to the next most recently-used app: Command + Tab
