Mac Keyboard Shortcuts

Sound Volume

• F11 → decrease sound volume
• F12 → increase sound volume

• Shift+⌥ option+F11 → decrease sound volume in fine steps
• Shift+⌥ option+F12 → increase sound volume in fine steps

• ⌥ option+F11 → bring up sound system settings panel
• ⌥ option+F12 → bring up sound system settings panel

mission control (show all windows, switch windows)

• switch to previous app ⌘ command+Tab

• show all windows Ctrl+↑
• show all app windows Ctrl+↓
• show desktop F11
• show dashboard F12

• move left a space Ctrl+←
• move right a space Ctrl+→
• switch to desktop 1 Ctrl+1

new, open, close, save, print

• new ⌘ command+n
• open ⌘ command+o
• close ⌘ command+w
• save ⌘ command+s
• print ⌘ command+p

copy, cut, paste, undo, redo

• cut ⌘ command+x
• copy ⌘ command+c
• paste ⌘ command+v
• undo ⌘ command+z
• redo ⌘ command+Shift+z

Safari Browser Keys

• back ⌘ command+←
• forward ⌘ command+→

• back ⌘ command+[
• forward ⌘ command+]

• next tab Ctrl+Tab
• previous tab Ctrl+Shift+Tab

• next tab ⌥ option+⌘ command+→
• previous tab ⌥ option+⌘ command+←

• reload ⌘ command+r

• zoom in ⌘ command++
• zoom out ⌘ command+-

• open last closed ⌘ command+Shift+t
• empty cache ⌘ command+⌥ option+e
• fullscreen Ctrl+⌘ command+f

Text Editing

• ⌥ option+← → move cursor left by a word
• ⌥ option+→ → move cursor right by a word
• ⌥ option+↑ → move cursor to beginning of line
• ⌥ option+↓ → move cursor to end of line

FullScreen

fullscreen Ctrl+⌘ command+f

Finder (aka folder viewer, file manager)

Show hidden file in finder ⌘ command+⌥ option+.

slide show

goto Finder. Select photos, ⌥ option+⌘ command+y

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Mac Screenshot Howto

Copy File Path in Finder

There are many ways.

• Click the file, then ⌘ command+⌥ option+c
• Drag the file to terminal.
• Right click on the file, then hold ⌥ option key.
• ⌥ option+⌘ command+p to show path bar. It is shown at bottom of window, Then, right click on the file in the path bar.

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