Keyboard Shortcuts For Mac

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A clear list of over 200 Excel shortcuts for both Windows and Mac, side-by-side. Windows shortcuts in dark gray on the left, Mac shortcuts in white on the right.

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  1. The Mac OS X Snow Leopard Finder helps you access and organize most of the important Mac functions while you work. Use Finder keyboard shortcuts to display windows, copy and move files, and launch applications. These keyboard shortcuts help you get things done more efficiently. Key Function Command+A Selects all items in the active window.
  2. Feb 06, 2019  When you use a Windows (PC) keyboard on a Macintosh computer, the keyboard shortcuts that you use map to different keys. In particular, the primary key that is used in keyboard shortcuts in combination with other keys is frequently different. The following are the primary key substitutions on the Windows keyboard, and their Macintosh equivalents.

The Mac keyboard shortcut control tab will perform the Activate Next Tab action.

Minimize

⌘command M

The Mac keyboard shortcut command M will perform the Minimize action and the front window to the Dock.

Go To

^control L

The Mac keyboard shortcut control L will perform the Go To (Select Line) action.

Replace

⌘command F

The Mac keyboard shortcut command F will perform the Replace action.

Find Previous

⌘command ⇧shift G

The Mac keyboard shortcut command shift G will perform the Find Previous action.

Find Next

⌘command G

The Mac keyboard shortcut command G will perform the Find Next action.

Find

⌘command F

The Mac keyboard shortcut command F will perform the Find action.

If you've upgraded to macOS Mojave or later, you can use the Screenshot app to take all types of screenshots, or make video recordings of your screen. You can open Screenshot by pressing Shift-Command (⌘)-5, or use Spotlight to find and open the app.

Other keyboard shortcuts, such as Shift-Command-3 and Shift-Command-4, continue to work in all versions of macOS.

Capture the entire screen

Press Shift-Command-5 or Shift-Command-3 as described below.

In macOS Mojave or later

  1. Press Shift-Command-5 on your keyboard to see the onscreen capture controls:
  2. Click Capture Entire Screen . The pointer changes to a camera .
  3. Click anywhere on any screen to capture the screen of that display, or click Capture to capture the screen of every display.
  4. A thumbnail of the screenshot briefly appears in the corner of your screen. Interact with the thumbnail to edit the screenshot, move it, or take other actions. Or wait for the screenshot to appear on your desktop.

In all macOS versions

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  1. Press Shift-Command-3 to capture the screen of every display.
  2. Find the screenshot on your desktop.

Capture a window

Press Shift-Command-5 or Shift-Command-4 as described below.

In macOS Mojave or later

  1. Press Shift-Command-5 to see the onscreen capture controls.
  2. Click Capture Selected Window . Your pointer changes to a camera .
  3. Click a window to capture that window.
    To exclude the window's shadow from the screenshot, press and hold the Option key while you click.
  4. A thumbnail of the screenshot briefly appears in the corner of your screen. Interact with the thumbnail to edit the screenshot, move it, or take other actions. Or wait for the screenshot to appear on your desktop.

In all macOS versions

  1. Press Shift-Command-4.
  2. Press the Space bar. The pointer changes to a camera .
  3. Click a window to capture that window.
    To exclude the window's shadow from the screenshot, press and hold the Option key while you click.
  4. Find the screenshot on your desktop.

Capture a selected portion of the screen

Press Shift-Command-5 or Shift-Command-4 as described below.

In macOS Mojave or later

  1. Press Shift-Command-5 to see the onscreen capture controls.
  2. Click Capture Selected Portion .
  3. Drag to select an area of the screen to capture. To move the entire selection, drag from within the selection.
  4. Click Capture.
  5. A thumbnail of the screenshot briefly appears in the corner of your screen. Interact with the thumbnail to edit the screenshot, move it, or take other actions. Or wait for the screenshot to appear on your desktop.

In all macOS versions

  1. Press Shift-Command-4.
  2. Drag to select the area of the screen to capture. To move the entire selection, press and hold Space bar while dragging.
  3. After you release your mouse or trackpad button, find the screenshot on your desktop.

Capture a menu

Press Shift-Command-5 or Shift-Command-4 as described below.

In macOS Mojave or later

  1. Click the menu to reveal its contents.
  2. Capture the menu using either of these methods, which use Shift-Command-5:
    • Capture a window (the menu is treated like a window).
    • Capture a selected portion of the screen that includes the menu.

In all macOS versions

  1. Click the menu to reveal its contents.
  2. Press Shift-Command-4.
    • Drag to select the area of the menu to capture, then release your mouse or trackpad button to capture that area.
    • Or press Space bar to change the pointer to a camera , then click the menu to capture it.
  3. Find the screenshot on your desktop.

Capture the Touch Bar

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If you have a Mac with a Touch Bar and macOS Sierra 10.12.2 or later, press Shift-Command-6 to capture what is currently displayed on the Touch Bar. Then find the screenshot on your desktop.

You can also customize the Control Strip region of your Touch Bar to include a Screenshot button.

Use the screenshot thumbnail


When you take a screenshotin macOS Mojave or later, a thumbnail of the screenshot appears briefly in the lower-right corner of your screen.

  • Take no action or swipe the thumbnail to the right: The screenshot is automatically saved to your chosen save location, which by default is the desktop.
  • Control-click the thumbnail to choose more actions, such as change the default save location, open the screenshot in an app, or delete the screenshot without saving it.
  • Drag the thumbnail to move the screenshot to another location, such as to a document, an email, a Finder window, or the Trash.
  • Click the thumbnail to open the screenshot. You can then use the markup tools in the toolbar to crop, rotate, annotate, and take other editing actions. Or click the share button to share the screenshot.


Clicking the thumbnail opens it in editing view. Hover your pointer over each button in the toolbar to see its function.

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If you don't want the thumbnail to appear, click Options in the onscreen controls, then use the ”Show Floating Thumbnail” option to change the setting.

Learn more

  • Screenshot controls in macOS Mojave or later are provided by the Screenshot app, which is in the Utilities folder of your Applications folder. This app replaces the Grab app from earlier versions of macOS.
  • By default, screenshots are saved with the name ”Screen Shot date at time.png”.
  • To cancel taking a screenshot, press the Esc (Escape) key before clicking to capture.
  • To store the screenshot in the Clipboard instead of saving it, press and hold the Control key while you click to capture. You can then paste the screenshot into a document, message, or other location. Using Universal Clipboard, you can even paste it on another Apple device.
  • You can open screenshots with Preview, Safari, or other apps that can edit or view images. Preview can export to a different format, such as JPEG, PDF, or TIFF.
  • Some apps, such as DVD Player, might not let you take screenshots of their windows.

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