Mac Tips for beginners

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2. Shor

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3. Key

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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!

2. SHORTCUT KEYS: THE BASIS OF KEYBOARD PRODUCTIVITYSo 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.

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.

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SWITCH APPLICATIONS

Flip between your open applications

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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.

+

OPEN A NEW “SEARCH” FINDER WINDOWAre you used to pressing Window + E to open windows

explorer? This is simlar to open

a new finder window.

+ +

OBVIOUS SHORTCUTS

Open Mission Control Open Launchpad

+ N + SNew

Open

Close

Quit

The following shortcuts work across most programs.

Save

Copy

Cut

Paste

+ O

+ W

+ Q

+ C

+ X

+ V

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

6. EXC

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Punch in

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TO BREAK THE LINE WITHIN A CELL

If you want to move to the next line within a cell

+ +

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

TODAYS DATE AND TIME

Do you want to insert today’s date, press:

+ ;

Do you want to insert the current time, press:

+ ;

DATE SHORTHAND

Whenever working with dates, you can capture the date in the following shorthand:

It will default to the current year.

MM-DD

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SCREEN GRABSIn order to take a screen grab on a Mac, you have the following

options:

+ 3+

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4

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Full screen asPNG on Desktop

Portion you select as

PNG on Desktop

Full screen as PNG on

Clipboard

Specific Window as

PNG on Desktop

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SPECIAL CHARACTERS

Some handy special characters that you won’t see on your keyboard:

+ iê , e

+ uë , e

+ eé , e

+ `è , e

The letter in blue is

interchangeable for

any other vowel.

THANKS