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Several Mac Keyboard Shortcuts that You May Not Know

There are hundreds of thousands of Mac keyboard shortcuts that you can find by just looking through the menu bar for that application. You can find system ones by looking in the System Preferences under Keyboard. However, maybe you need to know some of the keyboard shortcuts you often need to use.

Move focus

Control - F2 Move focus to the menu bar

Control - F3 Move focus to the Dock

Switch

Command - Tab Move forward to the next most recently used application in a list of open applications

Command-` Cycle through open Finder windows

Window

Command - H Hide the windows of the currently running application

Command - M Minimize the active window to the Dock

Command - O Display a dialog for choosing a document to open in the frontmost application

Command - P Display the Print dialog

Command - Q Quit the frontmost application

Command - W Close the frontmost window

F9 - Tile or untile all open windows

F10 - Tile or untile all open windows in the currently active application

F11 - Hide or show all open windows

File

Command - S Save the active document

Command - Shift - S Save as another document

Command - Shift - N Create a new folder

Command - I Get Info

Command - Option - I Display Info of multiproject

Screen

Control - Shift - Eject Screen Dormancy

Command - Option - - reduce

Command - Option - = magnify

System

Command - Space Show or hide the Spotlight search field (if multiple languages are installed, may rotate through enabled script systems)

Command - esc Front Row

Command - ? Open the application's help in Help Viewer

Command - F5 Turn VoiceOver on or off

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