Venture beyond cut and paste to memorize some classic tricks you’ll use every day.
You’re undoubtedly accustomed to using two keys to copy and paste text as well as save your documents. Those keystrokes are so common that they’ve become second nature. But in addition to those constant timesavers, there are many more easily memoizable and incredibly useful Mac keyboard shortcuts that can save you a lot of time and brain space. Here are 10 suggestions that will make the most difference if they’re integrated into your typing routine.
Open yet another new tab
If like us you’re addicted to having excessive tabs open at any given time, you probably already know this one, but for everyone else, you don’t have to go to the File menu or press the plus symbol every time you want to open a new tab. ⌘-T will do the trick.
See double (files)
When you need to create a copy of a file, right-clicking and selecting Duplicate might seem like the easiest way, but we’ve got one better. Click on a file and then hit ⌘-D to make a copy. And it’s easy to remember too: D is for “double.”
Read more at MacWorld.com