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Slick Shortcuts

By Andrew Corney

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@corneynz - pakiki.net

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Staff PD day

30th January 2018

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Short cuts = time saved...

Link to more Mac short cuts

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Link to Chrome short cuts

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⌘ and space

Activate ‘Spotlight’ for quickly launching Apps plus a heap more features

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⌘ + tab

Tab through your open applications

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⌘ + Delete

Permanently delete a file from the Finder

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⌘ + w

Close current window or browser tab

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⌘ + h

Hides current window

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Great for decluttering your open applications.

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⌘ + `

Tab through your open windows

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Screenshot shortcuts

Your entire screen

  1. Press Shift-Command (⌘)-3.
  2. Find the screenshot as a .png file on your desktop.

Selected portion of your screen

  1. Press Shift-Command-4. The pointer changes to a crosshair to select portion of screen

Screenshot of a window

  1. Press Shift-Command-4. The pointer changes to a crosshair.
  2. Press the Space bar. The pointer changes to a camera.

Adding the ‘control’ key to any of these allows you to copy the screenshots to your clipboard to paste into Docs.

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Link

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⌘ + 1 (or 2 or 3....)

Goes to that tab in Chrome

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⌘ + F

Makes your App full screen

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Starts the ‘Find’ function

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⌘ + F1

  • Switches between Mirroring for external displays
  • Great for use with the classroom projector

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⌘ + L then ⌘ + C

  • Highlights web address (URL)
  • Then copies that to the clipboard

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Finder: Show file pathways

  • Remind yourself where files are located

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  • View -> Show Path bar

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Finder: Spring loaded folders

  • For moving or copying (hold down option key as well) files

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  • Finder has different views: icons, list, columns or cover flow