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Keyboard Shortcuts - HelpGuide

This document provides a summary of common keyboard shortcuts for the MacBook, including shortcuts for selecting all, quitting apps, closing windows, moving items to the trash, emptying the trash, using Quicklook, duplicating items, forcing app quit, accessing app preferences, printing, formatting text, undoing/redoing actions, saving, copying, pasting, cutting, renaming files, minimizing windows, hiding windows, taking screenshots, opening Spotlight, reloading pages in a browser, getting info on files, going forward/back in Finder windows or browsers, and selecting non-contiguous files. The shortcuts involve using modifier keys like Command, Shift, Option/Alt, and Control with other keys.

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Keyboard Shortcuts - HelpGuide

This document provides a summary of common keyboard shortcuts for the MacBook, including shortcuts for selecting all, quitting apps, closing windows, moving items to the trash, emptying the trash, using Quicklook, duplicating items, forcing app quit, accessing app preferences, printing, formatting text, undoing/redoing actions, saving, copying, pasting, cutting, renaming files, minimizing windows, hiding windows, taking screenshots, opening Spotlight, reloading pages in a browser, getting info on files, going forward/back in Finder windows or browsers, and selecting non-contiguous files. The shortcuts involve using modifier keys like Command, Shift, Option/Alt, and Control with other keys.

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iTeach MacBook

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Keyboard Shortcuts for the MacBook


Understanding the Apple Modifier Keys

⎋ – Escape
⇧ – Shift
⌃ – Control
⌥ – Option
⌘ – Command

⌃ ⌥ ⌘
The Ten Most Commonly Used Keyboard Shortcuts

Function Keyboard Shortcut

Select All Command+A

Quit an application Command+Q

Close a window Command+W

Move to Trash/Delete Command+Delete

Empty Trash Shift+Command+Delete

Quicklook of a file Spacebar

Duplicate Command+D

Force Quit Option+Command+Escape

Application Preferences Command+,

Print Command+P

Common Keyboard Shortcuts for iWork and Mac Office

Function Keyboard Shortcut

Bold Command+B

Italics Command+I

Underlined Command+U

Forward Delete Function+Delete

Undo Command+Z

Redo Shift+Command+Z

Save Command+S

Copy Command+C

Paste Command+V

Cut Command+X
Other Useful Keyboard Shortcuts

Function Keyboard Shortcut

To rename a file or folder Enter

Minimise window Command+M

Hide window Command+H

Screenshot of entire screen and


Shift+Command+3
save image onto desktop

Screenshot of a selected area and


Shift+Command+4
save image onto desktop

Open Spotlight Command+Space

In Safari/Firefox, reload page Command+R

Get info on a file or folder Command+I

In a Finder window or browser, Go


Command+[
Forward

In a Finder window or browser, Go


Command+]
Back

To select a group of files/folder


Command+Mouse Click
which are not in folder order

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