Top 100 Mac Keyboard Shortcuts

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Want to learn & use common OS X keyboard shortcuts. A keyboard shortcut is a way to invoke a function in OS X by pressing a combination of keys on your keyboard.

List of some modifier key symbols you may see in OS X menus:

•⌘ Command key

•⌃ Control key

•⌥ Option key

•⇧ Shift Key

•⇪ Caps Lock

•Fn Function Key

Intel Based Macs Start Up Combination Keys:

•Option:  Display all bootable volumes (Startup Manager)

•Shift: Perform a Safe Boot (start up in Safe Mode)

•Left Shift: Prevent automatic login

•C : Start from bootable media (DVD, CD, USB thumb drive, and so forth)

•T: Start in FireWire target disk mode

•N: Start from NetBoot server X Force Mac OS

•X: Startup (if non-Mac OS X startup volumes are present)

•D: Use Apple Hardware Test

•Command-R: Use Recovery (OS X Lion or later)

•Command-V: Start in Verbose Mode

•Command-S: Start in Single User Mode

•Command-Option-P-R: Reset NVRAM / parameter RAM

Full keyboard access In All Macs OS:

Full keyboard access lets you use your keyboard to navigate and interact with items on the screen. Use the below mentioned shortcuts to select and adjust controls such as text fields and sliders.

•Tab: Move to the next control

•Shift-Tab: Move to the previous control

•Control-Tab: Move to the next control when a text field is selected

•Arrow keys: Move to the adjacent item in a list, tab group, or menu or Move sliders and adjusters (vertical up and down arrows used to increase and decrease values)

•Control-Arrow keys: Move to a control adjacent to the text field

•Space bar: Select the highlighted menu item

•Return or Enter: Click the default button or perform the default action

Other OS X shortcuts for Different Applications:

•Command-Space bar: Show or hide the Spotlight search field (if multiple languages are installed, may rotate through enabled script systems)

•Control-A: Move to beginning of line/paragraph

•Control-B: Move one character backward

•Control-D: Delete the character in front of the cursor

•Control-E: Move to end of line/paragraph

•Control-F: Move one character forward

•Control-H: Delete the character behind the cursor

•Control-K: Delete from the character in front of the cursor to the end of the line/paragraph

•Control-L: Center the cursor/selection in the visible area

•Control-N: Move down one line

•Control-O: Insert a new line after the cursor

•Control-P: Move up one line

•Control-T: Transpose the character behind the cursor and the character in front of the cursor

•Control-V: Move down one page

•Option-Delete: Delete the word that is left of the cursor, as well as any spaces or punctuation after the word

•Command-Option-Space bar: Show the Spotlight search results window (if multiple languages are installed, may rotate through keyboard layouts and input methods within a script)

•Command-Tab: Move forward to the next most recently used application in a list of open applications

•Command-Shift-Tab: Move backward through a list of open applications (sorted by recent use)

•Shift-Tab: Navigate through controls in a reverse direction

•Control-Tab: Move focus to the next grouping of controls in a dialog or the next table (when Tab moves to the next cell)

Sleep / shut down / Power Off / Restart Key shortcuts:

•Power button: Turn off your Mac or put it to sleep

•Hold down the power button: Force your Mac to shut down

•Command-Control-power button: Force your Mac to restart

•Control-Media Eject (⏏): Show restart/sleep/shutdown dialog

•Command-Option-Media Eject (⏏): Put the computer to sleep

•Command-Control-Media Eject (⏏): Quit all applications (after giving you a chance to save changes to open documents), then restart the computer

•Command-Option-Control Media Eject (⏏): Quit all applications (after giving you a chance to save changes to open documents), then shut down the computer

•Shift-Control-Media Eject (⏏): Put all displays to sleep

Find / Search Mac Keyboard Shortcut:

•Command-A: Select all items in the front Finder window (or desktop if no window is open)

•Command-Option-A: Deselect all items

•Command-Shift-A: Open the Applications folder

•Command-C: Copy selected item/text to the Clipboard

•Command-Shift-C: Open the Computer window

•Command-D: Duplicate selected item

•Command-Shift-D: Open desktop folder

•Command-E: Eject Command-F Find any matching Spotlight attribute

•Command-Shift-F: Find Spotlight file name matches

•Command-Option-F: Navigate to the search field in an already-open Spotlight window

•Command-Shift-G: Go to Folder

•Command-Shift-H: Open the Home folder of the currently logged-in user account

•Command-I: Get Info

•Command-Option-I: Show Inspector

•Command-Control-I: Get Summary Info

•Command-Shift-I: Open iDisk

•Command-J: Show View Options

•Command-K: Connect to Server

•Command-Shift-K: Open Network window

•Command-L: Make alias of the selected item

•Command-M: Minimize window

•Command-Option-M: Minimize all windows

•Command-N: New Finder window

•Command-Shift-N: New folder

•Command-Option-N: New Smart Folder

•Command-O: Open selected item

•Command-Shift-Q: Log Out

•Command-Shift-Option-Q: Log Out immediately

•Command-R: Show original (of alias)

•Command-T:  Add to Sidebar

•Command-Shift-T: Add to Favorites

•Command-Option-T: Hide Toolbar / Show Toolbar in Finder windows

•Command-Shift-U: Open Utilities folder

•Command-V: Paste

•Command-W: Close window

•Command-Option-W: Close all windows

•Command-X : Cut

•Command-Option-Y:  Slideshow (Mac OS X v10.5 or later)

•Command-Z :  Undo / Redo

•Command-1:  View as Icon

•Command-2:  View as List

•Command-3:  View as Columns

•Command-4:  View as Cover Flow (Mac OS X v10.5 or later)

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