Keyboard shortcuts are one of the primary productivity tools on your Mac. You can discover shortcuts by looking in the Menu Bar and in System Preferences. You can also create your own.
Comments: 4 Responses to “Mac Basics: Learning To Use Keyboard Shortcuts”
Gene
3 years ago
Thanks Gary. I have a large spreadsheet (over 1000 rows). I would like to be able to scroll quickly to the top of the table and to the bottom of the table and have tried Fn+Up Arrow. But it doesn't do what I think it should do. Could I have something miss-configured?
Char: What do you mean by "close a page?" Which app? What sort of page? For instance, in Pages it doesn't make any sense to "close a page." You would scroll up or down, but no close anything. Maybe you mean close a window (File, Close Window) or close a tab (File, Close Tab). Those are Command+W and Command+Shift+W depending on if you are using tabs or not in that app.
Thanks Gary. I have a large spreadsheet (over 1000 rows). I would like to be able to scroll quickly to the top of the table and to the bottom of the table and have tried Fn+Up Arrow. But it doesn't do what I think it should do. Could I have something miss-configured?
Gene: fn+Up Arrow will scroll up one page. If you want to jump to the top and your keyboard doesn't have a Home key, use fn+Left Arrow.
What is the shortcut to close a page?
Char: What do you mean by "close a page?" Which app? What sort of page? For instance, in Pages it doesn't make any sense to "close a page." You would scroll up or down, but no close anything. Maybe you mean close a window (File, Close Window) or close a tab (File, Close Tab). Those are Command+W and Command+Shift+W depending on if you are using tabs or not in that app.