Mac shortcut key cheatsheet

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Summary

Mac shortcut keys are crucial for enhancing productivity and streamlining operations across macOS. The Command key, often combined with Control, Option, or Shift, acts as the primary modifier for most shortcuts. Essential combinations cover basic actions like cut, copy, paste, and save, alongside advanced functions for application management such as force quitting or switching between apps. Developers can also leverage shortcuts for efficient screenshot capture, precise text navigation, and file management within Finder, including creating new folders or moving items to trash. Additionally, browser-specific shortcuts facilitate quick navigation to the address bar, tab switching, and page zooming, making daily workflows smoother.

More and more people are using Mac computers or switch from Windows or other OS to MacOS, there are lots of shortcut keys which can help improve the work efficiency or ease operations.

This post will try to list some commonly used shortcut keys in Mac. But before that, let's first know some common keys on a Mac computer keyboard.

There are four major function keys: Command, Control, Option and Shift. Most of the shortcut keys will combine the functional key and other key.

Basic

Command key is the most important key in Mac keyboard, it is function the same as Ctrl key in Window in most cases. 

  • Command + Z: undo an operation
  • Command + Shift + Z: redo an operation
  • Command + X: cut
  • Command + C: copy
  • Command + V: paste
  • Command + A: select all
  • Command + S: save
  • Command + F: find

  • Command + Shift + 4: capture screenshot of selected area and save to a file
  • Command + Shift + 3: capture screenshot of the full screen and save to a file
  • Command + Shift + Control + 4: capture screenshot of selected area to clipboard
  • Command + Shift + Control + 3: capture screenshot of the full screen to clipboard
  • Command + Shift + 4(press Space key later): capture screenshot of a window to a file
  • Command + Shift + Control + 4(press Space key later): capture screenshot of selected area of one window to clipboard

In Application

  • Command-Option-esc open "Force Quit Applications" window
  • Command + H: hide the current running application window
  • Command + Option + H: hide other application window
  • Command + Q: quit the forefront application
  • Command + Tab: switch to the next recent used application in the open application selection window, the same as the Alt + Tab in Windows

 

Text Operation

  • Command + left key: move the cursor to the beginning of the current line
  • Command + right key: move the cursor to the end of the current line
  • Command + up key: move the cursor to the beginning of the article
  • Command + down key: move the cursor to the end of the article
  • Command + B: add bold to the selected text
  • fn + Delete: similar to the Delete key
  • fn + up key: page up
  • fn + down key: page down
  • fn + left key: scroll to the beginning of the article (Home)
  • fn + right key: scroll to the end of the article (End)
  • Option + right key: move to the end of next word
  • Option + left key: move to the beginning of the previous word
  • Control + A: move to the beginning of the line or paragraph

In Finder

  • Command + Option + X: cut file
  • Command + Shift + N: create new folder
  • Command + Shift + G: bring the window to forefront
  • Command + up key: move to parent folder
  • Command + Delete: move file to trash
  • Command + Shift + Delete: clear the trash bin
  • Space key: quick preview of the selected file

 

In Browser

  • Command + L: move cursor to address bar
  • Control + Tab: move to next tab
  • Control + Shift + Tab: move to previous tab
  • Command + +/=: zoom in page
  • Command + -: zoom out page

Reference: https://www.toutiao.com/i6626620020409500174/

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