Depending on the function keys setting in the Keyboard tab of the Keyboard panel, you might need to add Fn to any shortcut involving one of the function keys. One of my favourites is ⌃F2 to move focus to the menubar. With the commands in that section, you can move the keyboard focus to various parts of the interface. Make sure that Keyboard is selected in the list on the left side. You can find the relevant settings in the Shortcuts tab of the Keyboard panel in System Preferences. Many people don’t realise that you can access and control much of the user interface without using a pointing device. If you’re reading this article on a desktop device, you can also hover your mouse over any keyboard shortcut to see it spelled out. Here’s a quick list of the primary keys involved in keyboard shortcuts on the Mac, for reference.
In this piece, I’d like to share some of the keyboard shortcuts and related functionality that I use every day on the Mac.įirstly, as I stated in the previous article, you should take the time to learn your text editing shortcuts.
I recently wrote an article about being productive on a small screen, which mentioned my belief that the most effective route to productivity on a computer is learning the available keyboard shortcuts.
