![]() ![]() In work the applications i use have HUGE menus. The only thing that i miss is that on windows you press Alt, then you can navigate the menus super quickly. I think that if the shortcuts seem odd at first, if you actually think about the keys your pressing it makes sense. F4 to select the location bar in IE/Windows Explorer. If you get it in your mind that control = (command) then most just follow suit. When i first switched i was a bit confused, because 'control + anything' does nothing (most of the time). ![]() I changed the iMovie 08 Import shortcut to suit my needs. The cool thing is that if a command is lacking, you can change or add it with the customization tool. In all, it's just a matter of learning the ones you need. If these symbols were actually on keyboards it would help. The icons they use to describe shortcuts are, unfortunately, inscrutable. And some are harder but in a sensible way: Cmd-Shift-D to deliver email instead of Outlook's Alt-S that's easier but also easier to hit by accident sending the email prematurely when you meant to save it. Some are harder: Cmd-Shift-3 (?) for a screen grab rather than Alt-PrtScn. Others are easier: Cmd-Q to quit rather than Alt-F4 or Cmd-H to hide, instead of Alt-Space-N (to minimize a window). The Cut/Copy/Paste commands are essentially the same: Cmd-C instead of Ctrl-C. Having switched recently, it's a mixed bag. After that, there doesn't seem to be much rhyme or reason. The good news, though, is that you can customize all of them if you don't like them, and make new ones for any application or for all applications using System Preferences -> Mouse and Keyboard.Ĭlick to expand.Command (AKA Apple or Splat) Key is the basis for all shortcuts. If you're already very used to Windows shortcuts, I can see that they'd take some getting used to at first, though. Cmd + H to hide the current application, or Cmd + Option + H to hide all other applications. Usually the basic shortcut is Cmd + "Key" and you can use different "versions" or "specializations" of the shortcut by adding Shift or Option. That confused me at first, but then realized, that it was simply a version of "Find" that searches the whole internet instead of the current webpage. in Safari, Cmd + F is used to find a search query on your page ("Find") and Option + Cmd + F is use to access the Google search bar. There are other ones that aren't so obvious at first, but then make sense once you think for a moment why they are like that. Cmd + Q and Cmd + W to quit or close are window are just obvious, and so is Cmd + H to hide an application. Now that I've switched to Mac, I use them all the time because I find them a lot more intuitive. 5.Personally, I never used Windows shortcuts because they never made sense to me. Then click on you mouse and drag the cursor to draw a box around the area you want to capture, and it will automatically be copied to your clipboard. ![]() If you want to capture a certain part of the screen, hit Command + Control + Shift + 4 on your Mac. However, it shouldn’t take long to become second nature - especially if you frequently take screenshots. This one is a bit more complex than the previous shortcuts since it involves pressing three keys simultaneously. Press Shift + Command + 3 to take a screenshot. This one is a big time saver since you won’t have to scroll the cursor over to the Close button on a window’s top left corner. You can close the current active window by pressing Command + W. It also pairs nicely with the following shortcut below. This shortcut has been around for years and is extremely useful. If you have several open tabs, you can easily switch between them by pressing Command + Tab. ![]()
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