keyboard-70506_640We’ve got mice and pointers and hand gestures and swipes. The keyboard is starting to look and feel a little old school. Because of that, and because we spend all our time poking and swiping at our screens these days, we’ve kind of gotten out of touch with our keyboards. Below are some fantastically useful keyboard shortcuts you might want to reacquaint yourself with, if not for old time’s sake, then simply because they’re so darned useful!

General Purpose Keyboard Shortcuts

Command + C – The final word in copying something to the clipboard. If you’d rather cut than copy, you want Command + X.

Command + V – The flip side of cutting or copying, this is the keystroke command for pasting whatever you just put in the clipboard. Taken together, these two provide an immediately useful, powerful one-two punch that can save you loads of time.

Command + Delete – Why bother dragging an unwanted file to the Trash?” Send it there without delay with that keystroke.

Command + Z – Consider this your all purpose “oops” button. This is the short cut to undoing your last action. It’s twin brother, Command + Y, will redo an undone action, making it an “oops” button for your oops button.

Text Navigation Shortcuts

Command + Right Arrow – This little gem will move your cursor to the end of the current line in a body of text. As you might expect, its twin, Command + Left Arrow will move your cursor to the beginning of the current line in a body of text.

Option + Right Arrow – This little gem will move your cursor to the beginning of the next word in a body of text. As you might expect, its twin, Command + Left Arrow will move your cursor to the beginning of the previous word in a body of text.

 

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