10 Mac Shortcuts a Newbie Must Know - Part 1 of 2

You went down to the Apple Store, browsed around, and ended up coming home with a brand new shiny, great running Mac.

You've played with iPhoto for about an hour take all of the silly photos you could, you've changed your Mac background color about 20 times and now it's time to get to business. Let's learn how to get you going on the Mac with speed, using shortcuts.

There are so many shortcuts and so little time to go through them all (not really but we will assume this for post sake, lol). So let's go through a list that will be easy for to remember and are essential to have your whizing through your Mac days.

Key:

(Command key)
(Option key)

#10 - Copy or Duplicate to clipboard

• Use: Command-C

If you've used a Windows PC before and have used this shortcut, this should be very familiar. Want to copy some text, image, anything to the clipboard, just select your content you wish to copy and press Command-C .

#9 - Paste the contents of the clipboard

• Use : Command-V

There's no Copy without paste, and Command-V (again very similar to Windows) allows you to paste the contents you have copied.

#8 -  Show or hide the Dock

• Use: Option-Command-D

This is shortcut perfect when you have a enlarge a window a bit to large, want to take a large screenshot, or just want the dock out of sight temporarily.

#7 -  Undo

• Use: Command-Z

So you didn't mean to type that sentence, you didn't want to move that box, or paste that particular content. No worries, it's not permanent, just undo this with Command-Z.

#6 -  Redo

• Use: Shift-Command-Z

Wait a minute, you did mean to paste that item or type that sentence, now make your mind, just kidding. All it takes is a simple redo with Shift-Command-Z.

Ok, enough for today, the shortcuts will continue Thursday.

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