10 most useful keyboard shortcuts for beginners macOS

Despite the most comfortable mouse trackpad and experienced makovody prefer to use hotkeys. Over time you will learn dozens of different combinations, and yet remember the most basic.

To begin with let us recall the names and designations of modifier keys on the keyboard Mac, the characters of which in different generations of computers are a little different and may be unfamiliar to beginners.

• ⌘ - Command, Cmd.
• ⌥ - Option, Alt.
• ^ - Control, Ctrl.
• ⎋ - Escape, Esc.
• ⏏ - Eject.

Completing the application

⌘Q

Unlike Windows macOS-app can have multiple windows, so closing the window does not mean the application exits. To complete any application to use the keyboard shortcut macOS ⌘Q.

Close the active window

⌘W

For the same reason there is a shortcut ⌘W. It allows you to close the current application window, without stopping the application as a whole.

Open a new tab

⌘T

Many applications support working with multiple tabs. Thus it is possible not to clutter the screen and opened instead of new windows only tab. During this action corresponds to a combination of keys ⌘T.

Switch applications

⌘⇥

To switch between running applications in macOS uses a combination ⌘⇥. A single press will take you back to the previous application, and press ⇥ on Hold ⌘ - open switch panel itself. With the inside panel can switch between applications using the navigation arrows.

Call Spotlight

^Probel

Spotlight search is considered one of the most useful features of MacOS X. The It can be accessed from the menu bar, but it is much easier to do this with a combination of keys ^Probel.

Terminating app

⎋⌥⌘

It is not often, but it happens that the hang application. In this case, they can be forced to complete, causing a complete menu by pressing the keys ⎋⌥⌘, which are analog Ctrl + Alt + Delete in Windows.

Copy, paste, undo entry

⌘X, ⌘C, ⌘V, ⌘Z

Hot keys for cut, copy, paste and cancel the entry in macOS differ only modifier key - is used instead of Ctrl ⌘. The rest of the shortcuts are similar: ⌘X, ⌘C, ⌘V, ⌘Z.

Search the document or site

⌘F

In macOS very widely used to search for specific words or phrases in your applications - this may be an open page in Safari or any document. To find text within a document or website you need to use a combination ⌘F.

Quick view in the Finder

Space

Quick view documents and images - this is probably the easiest, but it is an incredibly useful feature MacOS - it. It works just as well. To view a file just select it and press the "Space".

shutdown

⌃⏏

Translate into sleep mode, or shut down your Mac pezagruzit possible through menus . But it is much faster to do it from the Shutdown menu, which is caused by a combination of keys ^⏏. At the same time on a MacBook instead ⏏ keys must be pressed the power button.