Time-saving key combinations for every Mac user
Reaching for your mouse or trackpad gets old fast. Many tasks can be accomplished faster and more efficiently from the keyboard, provided you’re good at remembering key combos. Here are our hot picks of essential ones to memorize.
Cut, copy and paste
Burn Command + X, Command + C and Command + V into your muscle memory, because the commands they invoke (Cut, Copy and Paste respectively) are commonplace when editing documents on a Mac.
Don’t stop there, though – you can also enhance the Paste shortcut’s behavior. In many apps like TextEdit and Pages, you’ll often want words to adopt the style of where you’re pasting them, rather than retain the source’s look. That’s what ‘Paste and Match Style’ in the Edit menu is for.
Go to System Preferences’ Keyboard pane and click the Shortcuts tab. In the list on the left, select App Shortcuts, then click the + beneath the box on the right.
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