Keyboards

As you know by now, switching to the Mac entails switching your brain, especially when it comes to the old keyboard shortcuts. All of those Ctrl-key sequences become, on the Mac, ⌘-key sequences. (Check your Macintosh keyboard: The ⌘ key is right next to the space bar, usually on both sides.)

But plenty of other Mac keys may seem unfamiliar. For your reassurance, Chapter 1 offers a rundown of what they do.

Text-Navigation Keystrokes

In Windows, you may have grown accustomed to certain common keystrokes for navigating text—key combinations that make the insertion point jump to the beginning or end of a word, line, or document, for example.

OS X programs offer similar navigation keystrokes, as you can see here:

Function

Windows keys

Mac keys

Move to previous/next word

Ctrl+ , Ctrl+

Option- , Option-

Move to beginning/end of line

Home/End

Home/End*

Move to previous/next paragraph

Ctrl+, Ctrl+*

Option-, Option-*

Move to top/bottom of window

Home/End

Home/End (but see below)

Select all text

Ctrl+A

⌘-A

Select text, one letter at a time

Shift+, Shift+

Shift-, Shift-

Select text, one word at a time

Ctrl+Shift+arrow keys

Option-Shift-arrow keys

Undo

Ctrl+Z

⌘-Z

Cut, Copy, Paste

Ctrl+X, C, V

⌘-X, C, V

Close window

Alt+F4

⌘-W

Switch open programs

Alt+Tab

⌘-Tab

Hide all windows

+D

F11

* in some programs

  

Incidentally, the keystroke for jumping to the top or bottom of a window varies, depending on the program. You need ⌘-Home/End in Microsoft Word, ⌘-up/down arrow in TextEdit and Stickies, and Home/End in iPhoto and Finder list windows.

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