OS X El Capitan Power User Keyboard Shortcuts

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FINDER COMMANDS

MISSION CONTROL

POWER SHORTCUTS

or F3

View Mission Control

Sleep

space Open new search window

Show apps windows

Restart

Move to trash

F11

Show Desktop

Shut down

Empty trash

F12

Show Dashboard

Sleep display

Power options dialog

space

Spotlight search

Empty trash, no prompt

Move between spaces

New Finder window

Go to next app after

New Finder Window Tab

space

Create new folder

Enlarge under cursor after

Get file info

Show file inspector

APP SWITCHING

Go to next app

Y or space Quick Look

Go to previous app

Show view options

Next window in app

Connect to server

Hide/Show Dock

Go to Applications folder

Go to the top level

Open enclosing folder

TEXT EDITING
Start/end of line

Start/end of doc

Previous/next word

New window

Open file

X C V Cut/Copy/Paste

Close window

Paste and Match Style

Save

Select All

Show Fonts
Show Colors

S Save As

Toggle zoom on/o

=- Zoom in / out

APP COMMANDS

ACCESSIBILITY

Previous/next paragraph

F5

Show accessibility controls

Toggle image smoothing

KEYBOARD ACCESS

F1

Toggle on/o

F2

Focus on menu bar

F3

Focus on Dock

F4

Focus on next window

F5

Focus on current toolbar

Then, use to navigate, space to

select, to exit
STARTUP KEYS

Choose boot disk

PR

Reset PRAM

Single user mode

Target disk mode

Safe mode

Run diagnostics

Run diagnostics via net

Print

Quit

space Insert symbol or emoji

Quit and keep windows

App preferences

Hide app

Hide others

3 Screen to clipboard

Recovery mode

Help

Recovery mode via net

Toggle full screen mode

Minimize

SCREEN CAPTURE

Screen to file

Area to file (space to get

window)
4 Area to clipboard (space to
get window)

Note: Keyboard shortcuts can be disabled or customized in the System Preferences.

See http://macmost.com/j-keyshort for more shortcuts and to learn how to create your own.

command option

control

delete

esc

tab

shift
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