The trick to being a fast and productive on a Mac is the keyboard short cuts. This is something worth checking out, go to the Systems Preferences pane in the apple menu. Select the keyboard and mouse area, them to the Keyboard Shortcuts tab. You will find a list of the shortcuts available to you. You should look this list over. Below I have given a short list of shortcuts proven to help keep your hands off the keyboard.
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Key Combination |
Action |
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Command + ? |
Help |
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Command-A |
Select All |
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Command-C |
Copy |
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Command-D |
Duplicates current item |
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Command-E |
Ejects selected volume, media, or server |
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Command-F |
Find |
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Command-H |
Hide current application |
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Command-I |
Opens Get Info dialog for selected item |
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Command-J |
Toggles View Options Open & Closed |
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Command-K |
Connect to server |
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Command-L
|
Creates Alias for selected item |
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Command-M
|
Minimize a Finder-folder to Dock |
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Command-Option-M
|
Save as above but minimizes all open Finder-folders |
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Command-N
|
Opens up new Finder window |
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Command-O
|
Opens selected item |
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Command-
|
V Paste |
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Command-W |
Closes Finder-folder window |
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Command-Tab
|
Rotate through open applications and switch to highlighted app
|
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Command-X
|
Cut |
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Command-Z
|
Undo |
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Command-Del |
Moves selected item to Trash |
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Command-Shift-A
|
Opens the applications folder |
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Command-Shift-N
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Creates a new folder in the selected workspace |
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Command-Shift-Del
|
Empty Trash |
July 13, 2010
Great list! I’ve also found that once you hit Command-Tab to cycle through windows, moving your finger from Tab to ` (the key right above it) cycles backwards through the list (which is great when you overshoot the program you were trying to get to.