Action
Cut
Press
⌘X
Copy
Paste
Undo
Select All
Move to Trash
Find
Open
Print
Save
New Window
Close Window
Quit Application
Switch Application
Move to next Window in the active Application
Force Quit
Get Dictionary description of a word in any of the Cocoa (Mac native) Applications
Create a Text Clipping on the Desktop
Get Info
Take a Picture of the Screen
Take a Picture of the Selection
Take a Picture of the Selected Window
⌘O
⌘P
⌘S
⌘N
⌘W
⌘C
⌘V
⌘Z
⌘A
⌘⌫
⌘F
⌘Q
⌘⇥
⌘’
⌥⌘⎋
⌃⌘D whilst cursor is over word
Select text then click and drag to Desktop
⌘I
⇧⌘3
⇧⌘4
⇧⌘4 then spacebar
Show/Hide The Dock
In Dashboard, Show/Hide Widget Dock
⌥⌘D
⌘=
Cycle to the next/previous “page” of widgets in
Widget Dock
⌥ hover over a widget
⌘ command ⌫ delete ⌥ option ⎋ escape ⌃ control ⏏ eject ⇧ shift ⇥ tab www.osxkeyboardshortcuts.com
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Symbol Name
≤
±
°
¢
©
√
≈
≥
÷
≠
®
•
™
Lesser than or equal to
Greater than or equal to
Division
Not equal to
Square root radical
Approximately
Plus/minus
Degree
Cent sign
Copyright
Registered
Dot
Trademark
Shortcut
⌥,
⌥R
⌥8
⌥2
⌥.
⌥/
⌥=
⌥V
⌥X
⌥⇧=
⌥⇧8
⌥4
⌥G
Action Press & Hold During Startup
Start up from an optical disk (CD)
Start up from the Diagnostic volume of the Install DVD
Start up from a NetBoot server
C
D
N
T Start up in Target Disk Mode (on computers that offer this feature)
Start up in Verbose mode
Start up in Single-user mode
Reset the Parameter RAM (PRAM)
(hold down until second chime)
Boot into Open Firmware
⌘V
⌘S
⌥⌘PR
⌥⌘OF
Start up in Safe Boot mode and temporarily disable login items and non-essential kernel extension files
(Mac OS X 10.2 and later)
⇧
Access Startup Manager (to select an operating system) ⌥
Eject removable media Click and hold mouse
⌘ command ⌫ delete ⌥ option ⎋ escape ⌃ control ⏏ eject ⇧ shift ⇥ tab www.osxkeyboardshortcuts.com
Copyright © 2010 Dean Pirera