some shortcuts to remember. Original source: http://ss64.com/osx/syntax-keyboard.html
OS X Keyboard Shortcuts
Screen Capture to disk:
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3 Screen to jpeg file on desktop
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4 + Drag: Selection to jpeg file on desktop
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4 + Spacebar: Window (click camera) to jpeg file
Screen Capture to clipboard:
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3 + Ctrl: Screen to clipboard
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4 + Drag + Ctrl: Selection to clipboard
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4 + Spacebar + Ctrl Window (Camera effect)
Dock /Switch Applications
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D Show/Hide Dock
Tab Switch applications (even while dragging a file)
` Switch between document Windows in current application
Dock Switch application, hide previous one
Dock Switch application, hide all others
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* Toggle Monochrome Hi Visibility
+drag will prevent dock icons from moving out of the way
(useful when dragging items to the trash)
Apple Finder
+ Drag Explicit COPY (will copy even if destation is on same volume)
+ Drag Explicit MOVE (will move even if destation is on different volume)
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+ Drag Make alias in new location
D Duplicate
L Make Alias
R Show original
O Open item
↓ Open item
S Save
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S Save as
N New Finder window
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N New Folder
Q Quit Application
W Close Window
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W Close all Windows
I Get Info
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I Super Get Info (change whatever you click on)
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S Show/Hide the Finder sidebar
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Y Toggle Slideshow mode (show selected graphic files full-screen)
P Print
T Add to Favorites
Delete Move to Trash
E Eject
F Find
~ Cycle finder windows (including desktop)
Tab Highlight next item
+ double-click folder icon will open in new window
+ ↑ Move up one directory
+ [ go back
+ ] go forward
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A Open Applications Folder
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D Open Desktop Folder
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U Open Applications/Utilities/ Folder
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H Open Home Folder
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K Go to network
K Connect to server
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G Go to folder... (type full path)
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⌫ Empty Trash (Finder Menu )
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⌫ Empty Trash without dialog
Finder-Hide App:
H Hide Application
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H Hide other applications
Hide all other apps*:
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+ click on dock icon
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+ click inside app window
Hide all other apps that are in front*:
+ click dock icon (of running app)
+ click inside app window
*Some older (pre-intel) apps may struggle with these
QuickLook
Spacebar (orY) Activate QuickLook on the selected file(s)
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Y Full Screen QuickLook on the selected file(s)
Terminal
left/right arrow Switch windows
1 Switch to 1st terminal window
2,
3... Switch to 2nd, 3rd window
Spotlight
Spacebar Activate/deactivate Spotlight
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Spacebar Open Spotlight window
Return /
Click Open the top/next item
↓ / ↑ Move to next/previous category
Editing Text (email, TextEdit etc)
← Move one word left
→ Move one word right
Ctrl A Beginning of Sentence (Home)
Ctrl E End of Sentence(End)
← Beginning of line
→ End of line
[ “ Smart quote (open/left)
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[ ” Smart quote (close/right)
] ‘ Smart quote (open/left) Also Apostrophe: O‘Brien
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] ’ Smart quote (close/right)
Scroll one page up (cursor retains position)
Scroll one page down (cursor retains position)
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Move one page up (reposition cursor)
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Move one page down
↑ or
Scroll to beginning of document
↓ or
Scroll to end of document
Add shift keyto the above to also select the text.
⌫ Delete previous word
Del Delete next word
Ctrl D Delete next character (Del)
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. Show hidden files in open and save dialogs (Snow Leopard only)
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/ Open Application Help (Search)
Scrollbar Jump to exact scrollbar location
Scrollbar arrows Scroll page at a time (page up/down)
Volume up/down Open Sound preferences
ControlEject Turn display off (brightness=0)
Brightness up/down Open Display preferences
Shutdown/Logoff:
POWER Sleep now
POWER Hold for 10 seconds (force shut down)
Ctrl Eject Restart, Sleep, Shutdown dialog box
CtrlEject Sleep the display now
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Eject Sleep the computer now
Ctrl Eject Quit all applications and restart
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Ctrl Eject Shut down the computer now (Graceful Shutdown)
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Esc Force Quit menu - selectively force quit applications
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Esc Hold for three seconds to Force Quit the foremost application (Leopard/Snow Leopard)
.(period) Stop a process
Ctrl+power Immediate restart (dangerous, only use if the system is frozen)
Log out:
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Q Log out (Apple Menu)
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Q Log out immediately (Apple Menu)
During Startup:
Shift Safe Boot mode - Press shift asap AFTER the startup chime
V Start up in Verbose mode.
S Start up in Single-User mode (command line)
X Force OS X startup
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⌫ Bypass primary startup volume (will seek DVD or external disk)
C Start up from a CD (if it has a system folder)
D Start up from first partition
N Attempt to start up from a network server(NetBoot)
R Force PowerBook screen reset
T Start up in FireWire Target Disk mode
Option Select startup disk
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P R PRAM Reset - Hold down Cmd-Option-R with your left hand,
then press POWER to start up and immediately press P with your right hand.
See KB 2238 At the prompt you can type: reset-nvram and/or reset-all
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O F Open Firmware
E Eject CD (press during/after startup chime)
mouse Eject CD (hold mouse button down during startup)



⌫ is the Backspace key
Toggle hidden files
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
killall Finder
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