[ OS X SHORTCUT ]

OS X Keyboard Shortcuts

Screen Capture to disk:
? ? 3 Screen to jpeg file on desktop
? ? 4 + Drag: Selection to jpeg file on desktop
? ? 4 + Spacebar: Window (click camera) to jpeg file Screen Capture to clipboard:
? ? 3 + Ctrl: Screen to clipboard
? ? 4 + Drag + Ctrl: Selection to clipboard
? ? 4 + Spacebar + Ctrl Window (Camera effect) Dock /Switch Applications
? ? D Show/Hide Dock
? Tab Switch applications
? ` Switch between document Windows in current application
? Dock Switch application, hide previous one
? Dock Switch application, hide all others
Ctrl ? ? * Toggle Monochrome Hi Visibility
? +drag will prevent dock icons from moving out of the way
(useful for when dragging stuff to trash)
Apple Finder
? + Drag Explicit COPY (will copy even if destation is on same volume)
? + Drag Explicit MOVE (will move even if destation is on different volume)
? ? + Drag Make alias in new location
? D Duplicate
? L Make Alias
? R Show original
? O Open item
? ? Open item
? S Save
? ? S Save as
? N New Finder window
? ? N New Folder
? Q Close Application
? W Close Window
? ? W Close all Windows
? I Get Info
? ? I Super Get Info (change whatever you click on)
? P Print
? T Add to Favorites
? Delete Move to Trash
? E Eject
? F Find
? ~ Cycle finder windows (including desktop)
Tab Highlight next item
? + double-click folder icon will open in new window
? + ? Move up one directory
? + [ go back
? + ] go forward
? ? A Open Applications Folder
? ? U Open Applications/Utilities/ Folder
? ? H Open Home Folder
? ? K Go to network
? K Connect to server
? ? G Go to folder... (type full path)
? ? ? Empty Trash (Finder Menu )
? ? ? ? Empty Trash without dialog

Finder-Hide App:
? H Hide Finder
? ? H Hide Others

Hide all other apps*:
? ? + click on dock icon
? ? + click inside app window

Hide all other apps that are in front*:
? + click dock icon (of running app)
? + click inside app window

*Some older (pre-intel) apps may struggle with these Terminal
? left/right arrow Switch windows
? 1 Switch to 1st terminal window
? 2, ? 3... Switch to 2nd, 3rd window Editing Text (email, TextEdit etc)
? ? Move one word left
? ? Move one word right
? ? Beginning of line
? ? End of line
Scroll one page up (cursor retains position)
Scroll one page down (cursor retains position)
? Move one page up (reposition cursor)
? Move one page down
? ? or Scroll to beginning of document
? ? or Scroll to end of document

Add shift key ? to the above to also SELECT the text.

? ? Delete word
? Del Delete next word

? Scrollbar Jump to exact scrollbar location
? Scrollbar arrows Scroll page at a time (page up/down)
? Volume up/down Open Sound preferences
? Brightness up/down Open Display preferences Shutdown/Logoff:
POWER Sleep now
POWER Hold for 10 seconds (force shut down)
Ctrl Eject Restart, Sleep, Shutdown dialog box
? Ctrl Eject Quit all applications and restart
? ?+ctrl+eject Graceful Shutdown
? ? Eject Sleep now
? ? + Esc Force Quit
? + .(period) Stop a process
? Ctrl+power Immediate restart (dangerous, only if system is frozen)
Log out:
? ? Q Log out (Apple Menu)
? ? ? Q Log out immediately (Apple Menu)
During Startup:
Shift Safe Boot mode - Press shift asap AFTER the startup chime
? V Start up in Verbose mode.
? S Start up in Single-User mode (command line)
X Force OS X startup
? ? ? ? Bypass primary startup volume (will seek DVD or external disk)
C Start up from a CD that has a system folder
D Start up from first partition
N Attempt to start up from a network server(NetBoot)
R Force PowerBook screen reset
T Start up in FireWire Target Disk mode
? ? P R PRAM Reset - Hold down Cmd-Option-R with your left hand,
then press POWER to start up and immediately press P with your right hand.
See KB 2238 At the prompt you can type: reset-nvram and/or reset-all
? ? O F Open Firmware
? E Eject CD (press during/after startup chime)
mouse Eject CD (hold mouse button down during startup) ? is the Command or Apple key
? is the Option or Alt key
? is the Shift key
? is the Backspace key
System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse
To change any keyboard shortcuts (including per-application settings) : open Keyboard Shortcuts and press [+]
To reset to defaults, open Keyboard Shortcuts and press [Restore Defaults]
To enable keyboard control in dialog boxes: Keyboard > Full Keyboard Access=All Controls
Full keyboard access will allow you to use Tab,Shift-Tab,Enter, Esc and the Space bar to navigate a dialogue box.
Emacs style shortcuts
Ctrl+H: Backspace delete (right-to-left)
Ctrl+D: Forward delete (left-to-right)
Ctrl+K: Kill / delete text between cursor and the end of the line
Ctrl+U: Delete current line
Ctrl+T: Transpose two characters (typo)
Ctrl+A: Beginning of line (Home)
Ctrl+E: End of line (End)
Ctrl+B: Back (left) one character
Ctrl+F: Forward (right) one character
Ctrl+N: Next line down
Ctrl+P: Previous line up
Ctrl+V: Page down
'Command + Tab' cycles through Applications,
'Command + ~ (tilde)' cycles through an individual Applications windows"

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