25 Basic Mac Keyboard Shortcuts

twenty-five basic Mac keyboard shortcuts by Goom oh I'm gonna show you a lot of the circles that I've been using over the years I have saved me probably thousands of hours instead of using your mouse or trackpad and just going all over the screen trying to find where to click using shortcuts can make your workflow a lot more efficient and if they will increase your productivity a lot so before we go into the shortcuts let me explain your modifier keys our modifier keys are the keys that you're gonna press in before as a combination in order to get the shortcut working right and there is for shift command control + option the one we're gonna be using the most is command which is sometimes abbreviated as CMD sometimes since shown as an apple icon and sometimes as that squiggly pound symbol then the second one we're gonna use the most is shift and then ctrl an option are used but not as much as much and that the actual 25 shortcuts are these ones copy pasted cut select all and do we do switch programs next window close window news document save documents save document as open document print document quick program spotlight new folder delete files empty trash open preferences go to the begin or end of a document at the top of bottom of a document capture your entire screen capture custom area of your screen or capture a specific program window and then what we're gonna do next is show you all of these shortcuts in practice command C to copy here is how it would look on your keyboard as you can see I've put an 1 and a 2 just to show the order because it's very important to press the case in the right order right if you proceed before the command key is not gonna work you're gonna write a C and nothing is gonna happen right so make sure that you always press the modifier key first and then the letter copy obviously a lot of people know this already but I just wanted to show you how to how that actually works low key I just select an area here on this webpage right and I press command C this text or whatever even images gets copied to the clipboard the keep playboys this virtual invisible document where stuff gets copied to us and that so you can paste it later but you actually can see the contents of the clipboard if you go to your finder if you go to your finder and you go to edit show clipboard you can see exactly what I just copied now this it's safe there for me to be able to paste it anywhere command V for pasting now that we've copied something into our clipboard pasting it is very easy just press command V so we have something on our clipboard already so all we have to do is open a document and then we can press command V to paste it and there it is we can press it as many times as we want to and that's how you paste content command X to cut content select any area you want to cut then press command X that text that content is going to be deleted from your document but it's gonna be saved in your clipboard that means that now if I press command-v it gets pasted again command a to select all the content so we go to our document and we press command a everything gets selected and now we can copy deleted we can delete it very easily by pressing the Delete key for example we can also select all the contents of a web page by doing command a and now we can command C copied and command V paste it on any document that we want command Z to undo this is my favorite one because every time you screw up or you go oops then you just press command Z so let's say we screw up here and oh oh I deleted the wrong thing no problem command Z your problem is fixed magically this is amazing and and imagine you when I go back many many times because you screw up many many times look I pretty much destroyed this part of the document no problemo just press command Z several times and you're back to where you started command shift Z to redo let's say I make a mistake here I deleted that by mistake so I wanna undo that mistake I press command Z and the mistake has been undone but let's say that I wanted that mistake to stay there well very simple press command shift Z and we go back to where we were before command tab to switch programs instead of going like trying to find your programs and moving windows around to find the program you can want to go to it's very simple just press command tab and you'll get this display we told the open programs and now you can easily select when you want to go you can do with your mouse or if you actually keep click kicking tab tab will iterate through all the open applications command back code to cycle through open windows in the current program so right now I'm in text edit and I have 4 windows up in four different documents you can see them all here so instead of using my mouse I can go command backquote and really quickly iterate through all the windows in this program command W to close a window or a tab on a browser so if I wanted to close this window window 3 I can go command W and it closes it the same way for window 4 come on w and it closes it if I'm in my browser command W will close that tab right and close that tab by pressing command W command and to create a new document or to open a new window on your browser so we press command and on TextEdit now we're in a new document and if we go to our browser and we press command and it opens a new browser window command s to save command s save the document you can see when I press command S if you look here under file it lights up that means that we have actually saved it now if the document happens to be a document that we haven't saved before and we press command s you can see that TextEdit are usually the program that you using will ask you to give it a name and select a location where you want to save the document shift command s to save us you can actually press command shift s as the order of the modifiers doesn't really matter now let's try this on our document shift command s basically what it does it dublicate the document and now we can save it as whatever we want just save it and we can press it as many times as we want it basically is saving different copies of the document command o to open a document or an application so to open a document just select any document and press command o and it gets opened by its default program in this case it's just a text file so it gets open by text edit but if it's an application let's go to applications and we want to open for example Firefox which I select Firefox and we press command o then Firefox opens command P to print the document simply open any document and then press command P and this will bring the printing dialog box of course you need to have a printer connected and then all you have to do is click print and there you go voila you print your document an interesting thing that you can do also is if you could have find there you select a printable file like a text file or a word document and you actually press command P it's gonna print it directly you won't even have to open the document command Q to quit your program command cute closes and quits the program for good command spacebar to bring spotlight command-spacebar bring spotlight and now I can search for any document in my hard drive for example if I'm looking for the shortcuts document so as you start typing the resources start appearing and there you go my first result and it's my PDF with all my shortcuts command spacebar command shift n to create a new folder in finder so simply go to finder and then press command shift N and there you go a new folder command delete to delete one or several files so let's say I want to delete these four files I press command delete now there have been taken to the trash I can actually open the trash and see that the files are there if I want to recover them just select them right click and select put back and they'll go back to where they were command shift delete to empty the trash can alright so let's say we've been deleting a lot of stuff for the day right like right now I can delete these files and delete these files anyways eventually your trash can may be full of megabytes gigabytes of data and eventually you don't need those so if you want to empty the trash can you can do that with the shortcut shift or command shift delete let's just check the trash and you can see all of that in there so when I press that shortcut that should disappear let's let's try command shift delete it gives me a warning and I just click empty trash can and there you go the trash can is empty command coma to check the preference of any program so for example in Safari if I want to check the preferences for Safari test press command coma and that brings the preferences for safari in finder for example called command coma it brings the preferences for finder command left and right arrows to go to the beginning or end of a line or to go back and forth in your browser for example right now we're at the end of this line if we want to go to the beginning of the line which is press command left arrow and that takes us to the beginning of the line back to the end command right exit to the end of the line if we are browsing away and we want to go back to where we were before you can press command left arrow and it takes us back command right arrow takes us forward in our history command up or down arrows to go to the top or bottom of a document or in the browser as well so let's say we have a very big document instead of one you know scrolling up and down a lot we want to go to the bottom right away which is press command down arrow and it takes it to the button and if you want to go all the way to the top which is press command up arrow and that takes it to the top of the document it works the same on a browser just press command down to go to the bottom or command app to go to the top of the document command shift three to capture our entire screen into a file and image file into our desktop so simply go command shift three here a picture sound and then you can see how the image was created and it has the screenshot and the date and the time it was taken if you open it in preview you can see that that was your entire desktop has been captured into a PNG file command shift 4 to capture a custom area of your screen so this is very useful if you want to send a specific area of your of your screen to for example a designer and say you know please fix this part my website so command shift for you see now you get some cross hers make sure that now you just simply drag as big as you want the area you want to capture and when you release you'll hear the camera shutter sound which means it's being captured there you go and now if we go to our finder the file has been created and just that specific area has been captured command shift 4 and then spacebar to capture a window an entire window of a program for example let's say we want to send somebody our preferences for Safari so we go command coma to show the preferences we go to general here for example and then we want to capture this window exactly so it's very simple to scope command shift for right and then press spacebar you can see now we can bring this camera icon to whichever window we want to capture exactly so let's say we want to capture the preference Preferences window for Safari and just click here the shutter sound and then if we go to finder we have an image file has been created which contains exactly just that window and those are the 25 basic Mac keyboard shortcuts by groom oh thanks for watching [Music]

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Published: Sun Feb 03 2013

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