Open Mac Finder folders Get to your most-often-used folders with this shortcut. Pro tip: Tap the spacebar once to take a screenshot of a specific window, or hold the spacebar to move the selected area around without changing its dimensions. Command-Shift-4 will turn your mouse cursor into a set of crosshairs (not unlike a sniper rifle sight) that you can then click and drag around any portion of your screen to capture only the relevant area. Command-Shift-3 will take a picture of your entire Mac’s screen, from the upper left to the bottom right. Take Mac screenshotsĬommand-Shift-3, Command-Shift-4: Screenshots are a way of life in my daily work, and I’m willing to bet you’ve needed to take a quick capture of your screen at some point.

To find something in the Finder, Safari or Chrome, or in a Pages or Word document, simply hit the Command-F key combination and a little window will show up where you can type in your search terms. Keep hitting this shortcut to open multiple tabs (or continue opening tabs in reverse chronological order in Chrome).Ĭommand-F: Search is a massive part of any computer user’s workflow, from finding the right document to looking for a key word or phrase in Safari. In Chrome, Command-Shift-T will open the most recently closed tab for you. Open a new web browser tab on MacĬommand-T: Whether you’re in a web browser like Safari or Chrome or in the Finder itself, this keyboard shortcut will open a new tab for you. Chrome, for example, delineates between Close Window ( Command-W) and Close Tab ( Command-Shift-W). These shortcuts will do the same thing as the Close Window option in the Finder and most other apps. Close Mac windows quicklyĬommand-W, Option-Command-W: The first of these will close whatever active window you are using, while the second one will close all the windows in the currently active app (or Finder, which is also an app, really). To fully exit out of any Mac program in OS X, you’ll need to use the Quit command with this shortcut, or click on the app menu, then choose Quit. In OS X, you close windows with the red X button (in the upper left of your window), but it will not quit the app. Quit any Mac programĬommand-Q: If you’re coming from a Windows computer, you might have gotten used to “X-ing out” of your applications by clicking on the X button at the top of any application window.

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