- How to Make a Custom Keyboard Shortcut on Mac. This works to create a custom keyboard shortcut in macOS and Mac OS X, the technique is compatible and behaves the same in basically every version of Mac OS system software dating back well over a decade. Here is how this excellent feature works.
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As a long-time Mac user, I once had to rely on Key Caps, an early Mac helper that would show you where special characters hid on a keyboard. Holding down Option and Shift-Option would reveal the secrets of π and ‰ and accent marks.
That feature never disappeared, though it did recede from view, and was renamed Keyboard Viewer. You may rarely need it—except when you're trying to type a key that your keyboard doesn't allow or you can't find.
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This might happen if you've got a wonky laptop keyboard that you're planning to take in for replacement, or if you're using a Mac set to a language you don't speak or if you're trying to enter characters in that language.
I've heard from readers who can't type a particular key because something's gone wrong with their hardware keyboard and they can't summon up a replacement keyboard to plug in and use. With Keyboard Viewer, you can click keys and those characters are inserted wherever your cursor is. (One reader couldn't enter their password in order to prep a machine to take in for repair, because the password contained…a character that the keyboard could no longer type.)
One limitation: You can only click keys that appear without the use of onscreen Shift or Option keys. For some reason, Apple doesn't offer a way to click-lock those keys to perform combinations. However, if your physical keyboard can still generate an Option or Shift key click, you can use those real keys to access virtual ones.
In the Keyboard preference pane's Input Sources tab, you can click the + button in the lower left and add keyboards of many languages. Check Show Input Menu in Menu Bar, and a tiny keyboard/Command key icon appears in the upper-right corner of your screen. (If you have multiple keyboards added, a flag or icon appears that's associated with the keyboard currently selected, instead.)
As a bonus, the Keyboard Viewer also highlights keys as you type them, if you ever wanted to visualize your physical typing on screen. Drowning or waving mac os.
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Here is a list of all the shortcuts in Mac OS X. Perhaps useful if you switched to the mac or forgotten certain shortcuts.
It's a pretty long list, but perhaps useful.
Startup
- 'Press X during startup' = Force Mac OS X startup
- 'Press Option-Command-Shift-Delete during startup' = Bypass primary startup volume and seek a different startup volume (such as a CD or external disk)
- 'Press C during startup' = Start up from a CD that has a system folder
- 'Press N during startup' = Attempt to start up from a compatible network server (NetBoot)
- 'Press T during startup' = Start up in FireWire Target Disk mode
- 'Press Shift during startup' = start up in Safe Boot mode and temporarily disable login items and non-essential kernel extension files (Mac OS X 10.2 and later)
- 'Press Command-V during startup' = Start up in Verbose mode
- 'Press Command-S during startup' = Start up in Single-User mode
Finder window
- 'Command-W' = Close Window
- 'Option-Command-W' = Close all Windows
- 'Command-Right Arrow' = Expand folder (list view)
- 'Option-Command-Right Arrow' = Expand folder and nested subfolders (list view)
- 'Command-Left Arrow' = Collapse Folder (list view)
- 'Option-Command-Up Arrow' = Open parent folder and close current window
Menu Commands
- 'Shift-Command-Q' = Apple Menu Log out
- 'Shift-Option-Command-Q' = Apple Menu Log out immediately
- 'Shift-Command-Delete' = Finder Menu Empty Trash
- 'Option-Shift-Command-Delete' = Finder Menu Empty Trash without dialog
- 'Command-H' = Finder Menu Hide Finder
- 'Option-Command-H' = Finder Menu Hide Others
- 'Command-N' = File Menu New Finder window
- 'Shift-Command-N' = File Menu New Folder
- 'Command-O' = File Menu Open
- 'Command-S' = File Menu Save
- 'Shift-Command-S' = File Menu Save as
- 'Command-P' = File Menu Print
- 'Command-W' = File Menu Close Window
- 'Option-Command-W' = File Menu Close all Windows
- 'Command-I' = File Menu Get Info
- 'Option-Command-I' = File Menu Show Attributes Inspector
- 'Command-D' = File Menu Duplicate
- 'Command-L' = File Menu Make Alias
- 'Command-R' = File Menu Show original
- 'Command-T' = File Menu Add to Favorites
- 'Command-Delete' = File Menu Move to Trash
- 'Command-E' = File Menu Eject
- 'Command-F' = File Menu Find
- 'Command-Z' = Edit Menu Undo
- 'Command-X' = Edit Menu Cut
- 'Command-C' = Edit Menu Copy
- 'Command-V' = Edit Menu Paste
- 'Command-A' = Edit Menu Select All
- 'Command-1' = View Menu View as Icons
- 'Command-2' = View Menu View as List
- 'Command-3' = View Menu View as Columns
- 'Command-B' = View Menu Hide Toolbar
- 'Command-J' = View Menu Show View Options
- 'Command – [' = Go Menu Back
- 'Command – ]' = Go Menu Forward
- 'Shift-Command-C' = Go Menu Computer
- 'Shift-Command-H' = Go Menu Home
- 'Shift-Command-I' = Go Menu iDisk
- 'Shift-Command-A' = Go Menu Applications
- 'Shift-Command-F' = Go Menu Favorites
- 'Shift-Command-G' = Go Menu Goto Folder
- 'Command-K' = Go Menu Connect to Server
- 'Command-M' = Window Menu Minimize Window
- 'Command-?' = Help Menu Open Mac Help
- 'Command-Space' = Open Spotlight (Mac OS X 10.4 or later)
- 'Command-Alt-Space' = Open Spotlight Guide (Mac OS X 10.4 or later)
- 'F12' = Opens Dashboard (Mac OS X 10.4 or later)
Universal Access and VoiceOver
- 'Option-Command-* (asterisk)' = Turn on Zoom
- 'Option-Command-+ (plus)' = Zoom in
- 'Option-Command– (minus)' = Zoom out
- 'Control-Option-Command-* (asterisk)' = Switch to White on Black
- 'Control-F1' = Turn on Full Keyboard Access
When Full Keyboard Access is turned on, you can use the key combinations listed in the table below from the Finder. - 'Control-F2' = Full Keyboard Access Highlight Menu
- 'Control-F3' = Full Keyboard Access Highlight Dock
- 'Control-F4' = Full Keyboard Access Highlight Window (active) or next window behind it
- 'Control-F5' = Full Keyboard Access Highlight Toolbar
- 'Control-F6' = Full Keyboard Access Highlight Utility window (palette)
- 'Command-F5 or fn-Command-F5' = Turn VoiceOver on or off (Mac OS X 10.4 or later)
- 'Control-Option-F8 or fn-Control-Option-F8' = Open VoiceOver Utility (Mac OS X 10.4 or later)
- 'Control-Option-F7 or fn-Control-option-F7' = Display VoiceOver menu (Mac OS X 10.4 or later)
- 'Control-Option-; or fn-Control-option-' = Enable/disable VoiceOver Control-Option lock (Mac OS X 10.4 or later)
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- '8' = Move Up
- '2' = Move Down
- '4' = Move Left
- '6' = Move Right
- '1, 3, 7, 9' = Move Diagonally
- '5' = Press Mouse Button
- '0' = Hold Mouse Button
- '. (period on keypad)' = Release Mouse Button (use after pressing 0)
Other Commands
- 'Option-Command-D' = Show/Hide Dock
- 'Command-Tab' = Switch application
- 'Command-Up Arrow' = Move up one directory
- 'Command-Down Arrow' = Move down one directory
- 'Page Up or Control-Up Arrow' = Move up one page
- 'Page Down or Control-Down Arrow' = Move down one page
- 'Option-Drag' = Copy to new location
- 'Option-Command-Drag' = Make alias in new location
- 'Command-Drag' = Move to new location without copying
- 'Command-C' = Show Colors palette in application
- 'Command-T' = Show Font palette in application
- 'Command-Shift-3' = Take a picture of the screen
- 'Command-Shift-4' = Take a picture of the selection
- 'Command-Shift-4, then press Control while selecting' = Take a picture of the screen, place in Clipboard
- 'Command-Shift-4, then Spacebar' = Take a picture of the selected window
- 'Option-Command-esc' = Force Quit
- 'Control-Eject' = Restart, Sleep, Shutdown dialog box
- 'Control-Command-Eject' = Quit all applications and restart
- 'Option-Command-Eject or Option-Command-Power' = Sleep
- 'Command-click window toolbar button (upper right corner)' = Cycle through available views for the window's toolbar (dependant on the nature of the Finder or application window)
- 'Command-`' = Cycle through windows in application or Finder (if more than one window is open)
- 'Function-Delete (PowerBook, iBook only)' = Forward Delete (delete the character to the right of your cursor)
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