Apple Mac Keyboard Shortcuts
May 9th, 2010
With my trusty Dell XPS M1330 is on its last legs, I decided to get with the times and buy a MacBook Pro 13". I’m very, very happy with it. However switching from the PC there were a few main keyboard shortcuts I struggled to find until I asked around/googled. For the benefits of others they are:
PC: ctrl-shift-left/right
Mac: alt-shift-left/right
Selects whole words, useful when deleting the last few words you typed
PC: Page Down Key
Mac: Fn-Down
Useful: Apple - ~
Cycle between windows of same app
Gosh I felt there were more than these. May add more to this as I figure them out :-)
Update: I also found that you can make dialogue box widgets tabble onto (OK/Cancel buttons etc) by doing: System Preferences —> Keyboard —> Keyboard Shortcuts and at the bottom of the page, click on the All controls radio button. Very handy.
Also Ben Summers helpfully recommended a useful tool called Alfred which I’d recommend checking out - helps you quickly launch things by hitting alt-spacebar.
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1. Ben Summers | May 9th, 2010 at 8:53 am
You should also install this: http://www.alfredapp.com/
2. James O'Gorman | May 9th, 2010 at 1:49 pm
I hadn’t seen Alfred before, but I use and very much like Quicksilver: http://www.blacktree.com/
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