104 Keyboard Shortcuts That Mac Power Users Should Know – MacBook, Mac computer, Mac OS X

Command ⌘, Shift ⇧, Option ⌥, Control ⌃, Caps Lock ⇪, Function key (fn), Command-C & Command-V, and Shift-Command-3 is a common keyboards symbols and keyboard shortcut for MacBook users.

Keyboard shortcuts or keyboard accelerators will help using Apple computer – MacBook easier, quick, and efficient, providing all kinds of options for performing common tasks within El Capitan and cut down dependency on mouse, trackpad, or other input device.

Using keyboard shortcut to perform tasks is easy, MacBook user just need hold down one or more modifier keys while pressing the last key of the shortcut. For example, shortcut COPY, hold down Command, press C, and then release both keys.

Here are top 16 important hidden MacBook keyboard shortcut tricks that every MacBook users need to know, whether you’re Mac newbie or Mac Pro user:

Volume:

1. Option-Shift or Volume Control key: Turn up or down the volume in 1/4 increments

In the “Finder” application:

2. Command-Shift-A: Jump to the “Applications” folder
3. Command-Shift-D: Jump to the “Desktop” folder
4. Command-Shift-U: Jump to the “Utilities” folder
5. Command-Shift-H: Jump to the “Home” folder

In the browser:

6. Command-Control-D: Define the word under your mouse cursor
7. Command-L: Jump to the browser address bar

Miscellaneous:

8. Command-F3: Hide every window and see your Desktop
9. Command-W: Close the window you’re on
10. Command-Option-W: Close every window in an open app
11. Command-Tab: Switch between open apps
12. Command-Space: Open “Spotlight Search” to find anything on your Mac
13. Command-Shift-3: Take a screenshot of your entire screen
14. Command-Shift-4, and then click and drag over the area that want to screenshot: Take a screenshot of a specific area
15. Command-Option-Esc: Force quit apps that aren’t responding
16. Command-Option-Shift-Delete: Empty the Trash immediately

 

Here, tipandtrick.net also complied all important MacBook keyboard shortcut that MacBook power users should know:

Cut, copy, paste, and other common shortcuts:

17. Command-X: Cut the selected item and copy it to the Clipboard
18. Command-C: Copy the selected item to the Clipboard. This also works for files in the Finder
19. Command-V: Paste the contents of the Clipboard into the current document or app. This also works for files in the Finder
20. Command-Z: Undo the previous command. You can then press Command-Shift-Z to Redo, reversing the undo command. In some apps, you can undo and redo multiple commands
21. Command-A: Select All items
22. Command-F: Find items in a document or open a Find window
23. Command-G: Find Again: Find the next occurrence of the item previously found. To find the previous occurrence, press Command-Shift-G
24. Command-H: Hide the windows of the front app. To view the front app but hide all other apps, press Command-Option-H
25. Command-M: Minimize the front window to the Dock. To minimize all windows of the front app, press Command-Option-M
26. Command-N: New-Open an new document or window
27. Command-O: Open the selected item, or open a dialog to select a file to open
28. Command-P: Print the current document
29. Command-S: Save the current document
30. Command-W: Close the front window. To close all windows of the app, press Command-Option-W
31. Command-Q: Quit the app
32. Option-Command-Esc: Force Quit-Choose an app to force quit. Or press Command-Shift-Option-Esc and hold for 3 seconds to force just the front app to quit
33. Command–Space bar: Spotlight-Show or hide the Spotlight search field. To perform a Spotlight search from a Finder window, press Command–Option–Space bar. If you use multiple input sources to type in different languages, these shortcuts change input sources instead of showing Spotlight
34. Space bar: Quick Look-Use Quick Look to preview the selected item
35. Command-Tab: Switch apps-Switch to the next most recently used app among your open apps
36. Shift-Command-Tilde (~): Switch windows-Switch to the next most recently used window of the front app
37. Shift-Command-3: Screenshot-Take a screenshot of the entire screen. Learn more screenshot shortcuts
38. Command-Comma (,): Preferences-Open preferences for the front app

Document shortcuts

39. Command-B: Boldface the selected text, or turn boldfacing on or off
40. Command-I: Italicize the selected text, or turn italics on or off
41. Command-U: Underline the selected text, or turn underlining on or off
42. Command-T: Show or hide the Fonts window
43. Command-D: Select the Desktop folder from within an Open dialog or Save dialog
44. Control-Command-D: Show or hide the definition of the selected word
45. Shift-Command-Colon (:): Display the Spelling and Grammar window
46. Command-Semicolon (;): Find misspelled words in the document
47. Option-Delete: Delete the word to the left of the insertion point
48. Control-H: Delete the character to the left of the insertion point. Or use Delete
49. Control-D: Delete the character to the right of the insertion point. Or use Fn-Delete
50. Fn-Delete: Forward delete on keyboards that don’t have a Forward Delete key. Or use Control-D.
51. Control-K: Delete the text between the insertion point and the end of the line or paragraph
52. Command-Delete: Select Delete or Don’t Save in a dialog that contains a Delete or Don’t Save button
53. Fn–Up Arrow: Page Up-Scroll up one page
54. Fn–Down Arrow: Page Down-Scroll down one page
55. Fn–Left Arrow: Home-Scroll to the beginning of a document
56. Fn–Right Arrow: End-Scroll to the end of a document
57. Command–Up Arrow: Move the insertion point to the beginning of the document
58. Command–Down Arrow : Move the insertion point to the end of the document
59. Command–Left Arrow: Move the insertion point to the beginning of the current line
60. Command–Right Arrow: Move the insertion point to the end of the current line
61. Option–Left Arrow: Move the insertion point to the beginning of the previous word
62. Option–Right Arrow: Move the insertion point to the end of the next word
63. Shift–Command–Up Arrow: Select the text between the insertion point and the beginning of the document
64. Shift–Command–Down Arrow: Select the text between the insertion point and the end of the document
65. Shift–Command–Left Arrow: Select the text between the insertion point and the beginning of the current line
66. Shift–Command–Right Arrow: Select the text between the insertion point and the end of the current line
67. Shift–Up Arrow: Extend text selection to the nearest character at the same horizontal location on the line above
68. Shift–Down Arrow: Extend text selection to the nearest character at the same horizontal location on the line below
69. Shift–Left Arrow: Extend text selection one character to the left
70. Shift–Right Arrow: Extend text selection one character to the right
71. Option–Shift–Up Arrow: Extend text selection to the beginning of the current paragraph, then to the beginning of the following paragraph if pressed again
72. Option–Shift–Down Arrow: Extend text selection to the end of the current paragraph, then to the end of the following paragraph if pressed again
73. Option–Shift–Left Arrow: Extend text selection to the beginning of the current word, then to the beginning of the following word if pressed again
74. Option–Shift–Right Arrow: Extend text selection to the end of the current word, then to the end of the following word if pressed again
75. Control-A: Move to the beginning of the line or paragraph
76. Control-E: Move to the end of a line or paragraph
77. Control-F: Move one character forward
78. Control-B: Move one character backward
79. Control-L: Center the cursor or selection in the visible area
80. Control-P: Move up one line
81. Control-N: Move down one line
82. Control-O: Insert a new line after the insertion point
83. Control-T: Swap the character behind the insertion point with the character in front of the insertion point
84. Command–Left Curly Bracket ({): Left align
85. Command–Right Curly Bracket (}): Right align
86. Shift–Command–Vertical bar (|): Center align
87. Option-Command-F: Go to the search field
88. Option-Command-T: Show or hide a toolbar in the app
89. Option-Command-C: Copy Style-Copy the formatting settings of the selected item to the Clipboard
90. Option-Command-V: Paste Style-Apply the copied style to the selected item
91. Option-Shift-Command-V: Paste and Match Style-Apply the style of the surrounding content to the item pasted within that content
92. Option-Command-I: Show or hide the inspector window
93. Shift-Command-P: Page setup: Display a window for selecting document settings
94. Shift-Command-S: Display the Save As dialog, or duplicate the current document
95. Shift–Command–Minus sign (-): Decrease the size of the selected item
96. Shift–Command–Plus sign (+): Increase the size of the selected item. Command–Equal sign (=) performs the same function
97. Shift–Command–Question mark (?): Open the Help menu

Sleep, log out, and shut down shortcuts

98. Power button: Press to turn on your Mac or wake your Mac from sleep. Press and hold for 1.5 seconds while your Mac is awake to display a dialog asking if you want to sleep, restart, or shut down. If you don’t want to wait 1.5 seconds, press Control–Power button or Control–Media Eject. Press and hold for 5 seconds to force your Mac to turn off
99. Control–Command–Power button: Force your Mac to restart
100. Control–Shift–Power button or Control–Shift–Media Eject: Put your displays to sleep
101. Control–Command–Media Eject: Quit all apps, then restart your Mac. If any open documents have unsaved changes, you’ll be asked whether you want to save them
102. Control–Option–Command–Power button or Control–Option–Command–Media Eject: Quit all apps, then shut down your Mac. If any open documents have unsaved changes, you’ll be asked whether you want to save them
103. Shift-Command-Q: Log out of your macOS user account. You’ll be asked to confirm
104. Option-Shift-Command-Q: Log out of your macOS user account immediately, without being asked to confirm

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