Using shortcuts could save you as much as 18 days a year! Learn some of the basic shortcuts on a Mac to get you started.

3. 1. WILL SHORTCUTS SAVE ME TIME?
If you only perform 200 simple tasks (such as opening a program, looking for a
file)
in an 8 hour day, you could save as much as 2400 seconds every work day with
shortcuts.
That’s 40 minutes a day!
That’s 3.3 hours a week!
That’s just over 1.5 days a month!
That’s just over 3 and a half weeks a year!

4. 2. SHORTCUT KEYS:
THE BASIS OF KEYBOARD PRODUCTIVITY
So how do you start saving time by being more productive with your
keyboard?
-> With Shortcut keys.
A shortcut key (or keyboard shortcut) is a set of keys pressed at the same
time. For
example, you might push the CMD key and the S key at the same time to form
the
CMD+S shortcut key to save.
Typically, the Shift key is used in conjunction with other keys.
Because Shift+S is actually the same as typing a capital S.

5. 3. KEYBOARD COMBINATIONS
A close cousin of shortcut keys are keyboard combinations. They are so
similar that,
outside of this presentation, we typically call them both shortcut keys.
While a
shortcut key is a set of keys pressed at the same time, a keyboard
combination is a
shortcut key followed by another key.
For example, the keyboard combination to add a caret on an “e” – In order
to achieve
this, you’ll press the alt+i keys, release them and then press the e key.

7. SWITCH APPLICATIONS
Flip between your open applications
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8. VIEW DETAILS
While you are in the finder, you can easily and quickly see more details on a
particular
folder or image by pressing alt and spacebar.
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9. OPEN A NEW “SEARCH” FINDER WINDOW
Are you used to pressing Window + E to open windows explorer? This is
simlar to open
a new finder window.
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10. OBVIOUS SHORTCUTS
Open Mission Control
Open Launchpad
The following shortcuts work across most programs.
New
Open
Close
Quit
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+
+
+
N
Save
O
Copy
W
Cut
Q
Paste
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+
+
+
S
C
X
V

11. FINDER
One of the best additions to the Mavericks OS is Finder tabs.
If you have multiple Finder windows already open, on the finder menu, go
to
Window > Merge all Windows.
If you have a Finder window open, press CMD + T to open a new tab.
+ T

13. TO BREAK THE LINE WITHIN A CELL
If you want to move to the next line within a cell
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14. COPY A CELL
If you want to copy a cell’s value (or formula) to the cell directly below it, go
to the cell
below the one you would like to copy and press:
+ D

15. TODAYS DATE AND TIME
Do you want to insert today’s date, press:
+
;
Do you want to insert the current time, press:
+
;

16. DATE SHORTHAND
Whenever working with dates, you can capture the date in the following
shorthand:
MM-DD
It will default to the current year.

18. SCREEN GRABS
In order to take a screen grab on a Mac, you have the following options:
+ 3
Full screen as
PNG on Desktop
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+ 4
Portion you select
as
PNG on Desktop
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+
+
+ 4
+
+ 3
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Full screen as
PNG on Clipboard
Specific Window
as
PNG on Desktop

20. SPECIAL CHARACTERS
Some handy special characters that you won’t see on your keyboard:
ê
ë
é
è
i
,
e
+ u
,
e
+
e
,
e
+
`
,
e
+
The letter in blue is
interchangeable
for
any other vowel.