Forums Guides Buyer's Guide iPhone Page 2 Mac Rumors Keyboard shortcuts From Mac Guides Jump to: navigation, search Keyboard shortcuts are combinations of simultaneous key presses that perform certain actions as an alternative to using the mouse. Keyboard shortcuts usually require a combination of modifier keys (comm
and, option, control
and shift)
and other keys. The comm
and key (cmd), also known as 'Apple' Contents 1 Mac OS X Shortcuts 1.1 Shortcuts With Global Scope 1.2 Keyboard Navigation in Mac OS X Core Apps 2 Taking
Screenshots 3 Shortcuts Common to Most Applications 4 Text Shortcuts 5 System st
artup 6 Customizing shortcuts 7 Shortcuts on laptops 8 Application specific shortcuts 8.1 iPhoto 8.2 iTunes 8.3 MS Office 2004 8.3.1
Word 2004 8.3.2 Powerpoint 2004 8.3.3 Powerpoint 2008 9 Links [edit] Mac OS X Shortcuts Many of these shortcuts can be customized (eg the Exposé shortcuts), as explained in Customizing shortcuts below. Symbols seen on Mac menus
and non-US Apple keyboards, with their common names [edit] Shortcuts With Global Scope comm
and-option-esc force quit comm
and-option-eject sleep now comm
and-shift-Q log out comm
and-shift-option-Q log out without confirmation comm
and-control-eject rest
art control-shift-eject sleep displays comm
and-option-control-eject shut down comm
and-tab cycle between open applications comm
and-` *after* having pressed comm
and-tab, it will cycle between open applications in reverse comm
and-shift-tab cycle between open applications in reverse direction comm
and-` cycle between open windows in the selected application comm
and-shift-` cycle between open windows in the selected application in reverse direction control-F4 cycle between open windows in all applications control-shift-F4 cycle between open windows in all applications in reverse direction F8 Spaces (Leopard only) F9 Exposé for all windows (Panther
and newer) F10 Exposé for all windows in selected application F11 Exposé to reveal desktop F12 Dashboard (Tiger
and newer) control-# Jump to a space (10.5+) control-arrow Cycle through spaces (10.5+) control-F2 activate keyboard control of the menu bar control-F3 activate keyboard control of the Dock control-F8 activate keyboard control of the Menu Extras (right side of menu bar) comm
and-space activate Spotlight (Tiger) or switch between keyboard layouts (pre-Tiger systems) comm
and-option-control-, decrease the
screen contrast comm
and-option-control-. increase the
screen contrast comm
and-option-8 turn
screen zooming on or off comm
and-option-= zoom in (if
screen zooming is on) comm
and-option-- zoom out comm
and-option-control-8 invert the
screen colors comm
and-delete send file to trash comm
and-space open a Spotlight search comm
and-option-space open a Spotlight search in a finder "Find" window spacebar when dragging file onto folder it will spring open without the usual delay shift-volume Change volume without sound effect option-shift-volume Fine-grained volume control (10.5+ ?) option-volume Sound Preference Pane option-brightness Display Preference Pane comm
and-decrease-brightness Change display mode (only on revised fn keyboard layout on Alu. keyboards, newer MBP/MBs?) [edit] Keyboard Navigation in Mac OS X Core Apps Expose, Spotlight, Spaces tab (Expose) cycle through Expose'd windows tab (Spaces) cycle through Spaces number (Spaces) focus specific space c (Spaces) collect all windows in space 1 tab (Spotlight) select cur
rent search term (equivalent to cmd-a) comm
and-enter (Spotlight) show selected file in Finder Finder spacebar quicklook selected item option-spacebar full
screen quicklook selected item comm
and-option-i multi-item Inspector for all selected files comm
and-delete send to trash comm
and-shift-delete empty trash enter edit filename, escape cancels, enter accepts the changes Finder - Column View comm
and-3 Switch to Column View type anything Find As You Type within the focused pane (FAYT) tab Focus contents of selected directory in a new pane right left go one pane back Finder - List View comm
and 2 switch to list view type anything Find As You Type (FAYT) tab cycle through contents of folder, wrapping around shift tab comm
and-up change working directory to pa
rent right open selected folder left (on a file) jump to pa
rent folder, if that folder is visible left (on folder) close that folder, if open option-right open all children of all selected folders option-left close all selected folders
and children open..., save..., browse... / go to... dialogue, allowing one to specify full pathnames from root file. w/ Tab Autocomplete comm
and-shift-g Go to folder... dialogs. w/ Tab Autocomplete tab space activate disclosure triangle Column View Note: A hollow arrow indicates that the pane with the selected folder is active. A solid white arrow indicates that contents of the selected folder are active in the pane to the right . The behavior of FAYT/Tab in Column View is functionally equivalent to tab-autocomplete on a st
andard *nix shell. [edit] Taking
Screenshots The Taking
Screenshots in Mac OS X
article includes keyboard shortcuts related to taking
screenshots. [edit] Shortcuts Common to Most Applications enter choose blue button in dialogue box (usually "enter" or "accept") spacebar simulate a mouse click on focused object (i.e., the button or control that has a blue halo around it) comm
and-shift-? Search application help. As of 10.5, this also FAYT searches available menu items. It also activates the menu bar as keyboard navigable if the search string is empty. comm
and-d don't save comm
and-+ increase font size comm
and-- decrease font size comm
and-, preferences comm
and-? help comm
and-: spelling comm
and-; check spelling comm
and-A select all comm
and-C copy comm
and-shift-C show colors comm
and-E use selection for find comm
and-F find comm
and-G find next comm
and-H hide comm
and-option-H hide others comm
and-M minimize comm
and-N new comm
and-O open comm
and-P print comm
and-Q quit comm
and-S save comm
and-T show fonts comm
and-V paste comm
and-W close comm
and-X cut comm
and-Z undo [edit] Text Shortcuts These shortcuts can be used within all text areas in Cocoa applications. option-left arrow move left one
word option-right arrow move right one
word option-delete back delete one
word shift-option-delete fo
ward delete one
word option-up arrow move up one para
graph option-down arrow move down one para
graph control-left arrow move to st
art of cur
rent line comm
and-left arrow control-right arrow move to end of cur
rent line comm
and-right arrow shift + any of the above extend selection by appropriate amount click then drag select text double-click then drag select text, wrapping to
word ends triple-click then drag select text, wrapping to para
graph ends shift-select text with mouse add to selection (contiguous) comm
and-select text with mouse add to selection (non-contiguous) option-drag select rectangular area (non-contiguous) comm
and-option-drag add rectangular area to selection drag selection move text option-drag selection copy text control-A move to st
art of cur
rent para
graph control-B move left one character control-D for
wards delete control-E move to end of cur
rent para
graph control-F move right one character control-H delete control-K delete remainder of cur
rent para
graph control-N move down one line control-O insert new line after cursor control-P move up one line control-T transpose (swap) two surrounding character control-V move to end, then left one character control-Y paste text previously deleted with control-K [edit] System st
artup Hold down these keys to cause a Mac to perform special actions at st
artup time. C
boot from CD or DVD T st
art up in FireWire target mode (the Mac temporarily becomes a very expensive external FireWire drive) X force
boot into Mac OS X (older Macs that dual-
boot into OS 9
and X) N st
art from Network drive shift
boot into safe mode mouse button eject CD before
booting normally comm
and-S
boot into single user mode; type exit when done comm
and-option-O-F
boot into the Open Firm
ware prompt comm
and-option-P-R reset PRAM comm
and-option-V verbose
boot; show the Unixy text goodness at
boot time comm
and-option-shift-delete bypass internal harddrive on
boot option choose st
artup disk at
boot time [edit] Customizing shortcuts Many system-wide shortcuts can be customized. This is described in detail in the Changing Keyboard Shortcuts
article. [edit] Shortcuts on laptops On most Mac laptops, some of the function keys (F1 - F12) are used to control hard
ware features: F1 decrease brightness F2 increase brightness F3 mute on G4s, decrease volume on G3s F4 decrease volume on G4s, increase volume on G3s F5 increase volume on G4s, numlock on G3s F6 Num lock on G4s, mute on G3s F7 Display mode (mirror or extend external display) F8 disable backlit keyboards (Aluminum Power
Books) F9 decrease keyboard brightness for backlit keyboards F10 increase keyboard brightness for backlit keyboards F12 eject (some Macs, namely all Mac
Books, Mac
Book Pros,
and newer Power
Books, place a dedicated eject key next to the F12 key) Newer Mac laptops (Mac
Book Pros made after February 2008, Mac
Books after November(?) 2007, Mac
Book Airs),
and the Aluminum keyboard, have a diffe
rent layout for fn keys. Some keys have been added, while the numlock key has been removed
and the display mode key has been integrated into the brightness key (see combinations in pa
renthesis) F1 decrease brightness (comm
and+F1 changes display mode, option+F1 brings up display prefs) F2 increase brightness (option+F2 brings up display prefs) F3 exposé (F3 shows all windows, control+F3 shows app windows, option+F3 brings up exposé prefs, comm
and+F3 shows desktop) F4 dashboard (option+F4 brings up exposé prefs) F5 decrease keyboard brightness for backlit keyboards (option+F5 brings up keyboard prefs) F6 increase keyboard brightness for backlit keyboards (option+F6 brings up keyboard prefs) F7 media navigation back
wards (like hitting back on Apple Remote) F8 media play/pause (like hitting play/pause on Apple Remote) F9 media navigation for
wards (like hitting next on Apple Remote) F10 mute volume (option+F10 brings up sound prefs) F11 decrease volume (option+shift+F11 for incremental decrease, option+F11 brings up sound prefs) F12 increase volume (option+shift+F12 for incremental increase, option+F12 brings up sound prefs) If you want to use these function keys for st
andard keyboard shortcuts, you must use the fn key, located in the lower-left corner of the keyboard. For example, to use Spaces on these keyboards, you must press fn-F8; to shift between all open windows in all applications, you must press ctrl-fn-F4; etc. This behaviour can be altered in the Keyboard tab of the Keyboard & Mouse preference pane, so that hard
ware functions (like
screen brightness) require pressing fn,
and st
andard keyboard shortcuts (like Spaces) work without the fn key. [edit] Application specific shortcuts [edit] iPhoto comm
and-option-backspace delete pictures from the library from within an album comm
and-1,2,3,4,5 rate picture [edit] iTunes comm
and-option-backspace delete songs from the library from within a playlist comm
and-B show browser comm
and-L highlight cur
rently playing track comm
and-shift-R reveal cur
rently playing track in Finder (was comm
and-R until iTunes 10) [edit] MS Office 2004 [edit]
Word 2004 Insert Bullet Clear Formatting Cntrl + Spacebar [edit] Powerpoint 2004 page down while in normal view, cursor in the slide window (not notes or outline) next slide F6/fn-F6 toggle between Slide, Outline,
and notes windows control-shift-S st
art slide show from first slide control-shift-B st
art slide show from cur
rent slide [edit] Powerpoint 2008 F6/fn-F6 toggle has a bug where it occasionally jumps to the first slide instead of toggling cursor. [edit] Links Apple Shortcuts Document Keyboard Shortcuts Quick Reference in the Apple Human Interface Guidelines Extensive List of Mac Keyboard Shortcuts by Dan Rodney OS X Keyboard Shortcuts An exhaustive list of Finder shortcuts Retrieved from "http://guides.macrumors.com/Keyboard_shortcuts" Category: Mac OS X Views
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