Keyboard Shortcuts

If saving time and being productive is the name of the game, then keyboard shortcuts are for you. The next time you are browsing around the menus of your favorite applications, take a glance at the right side of the menu to see if you find any shortcuts that can help you out. Here are a few to get you started.

• Command-? Mac Help
• Command-A Select All
• Command-C Copy
• Command-D Duplicates current item
• Command-E Ejects selected volume, media, or server
• Command-F Find
• Command-H Hide current application
• Command-I Opens Get Info dialog for selected item
• Command-J Toggles View Options Open & Closed
• Command-K Connect to server
• Command-L Creates Alias for selected item
• Command-M Minimize a Finder-folder to Dock
• Command-Option-M Save as above but minimizes all open Finder-folders
• Command-N Opens up new Finder window
• Command-O Opens selected item
• Command-Q Quits active application
• Command-V Paste
• Command-W Closes Finder-folder window
• Command-Option-W Same as above but closes all Finder-folders
• Command-X Cut
• Command-Z Undo
• Command-Del Moves selected item to Trash
• Command-Shift-A Opens the applications folder
• Command-Shift-N Creates a new folder in the selected workspace
• Command-Shift-Del Empty Trash
• Command-Tab Rotate through open applications and switch to highlighted app
• Command-~ Same as above but only flips through open windows in the selected application.

Eject Optical Media

This is probably only a problem for those that are using non-Apple keyboards, that lack a CD Eject key. Press and Hold F12 for 2 seconds to eject any CD or DVD. An alternate method is dragging the CD icon on the desktop to the trash. This will not delete it. You can also use the Command-E keystroke.