The keyboard shortcuts are preferred by many users as it saves time of yours and lessen your lengthy work. So, keeping the conveniences and importance of shortcuts in our mind, we have dig out this complete list of Mac keyboard Shortcuts.
Mac Keyboard Shortcuts
You need to go through the below keys and can refer this list to perform different tasks on your Mac by using these simple Mac Keyboard Shortcuts.
Command + A ———— Select All Items in Opened Window
Command + B ———— Bold the selected text Or Toggle bold Text On/Off
Command + C ———– Copy Selected Items or Text
Command + D ————– Select the Desktop folder in Open and Save dialog boxes
Command + E ————— Use Selection for a find
Command + F ————— Open a Find Window or Find Text in a Document
Command + G ————— Find the next occurrence of the selection
Command + H ————— Hide the window of running app
Command + I —————– Italicize the selected Text Or Toggle Italicize On/Off
Command + J —————–Show View Option
Command + K —————–Connect to Server
Command + L —————– Make Alias of the selected items
Command + M ————— Minimize the active Window to the Dock
Command + N —————- Create a new document in the frontmost app or New Finder Window
Command + O —————- Display a dialog for choosing a document to open in the frontmost app
Command + P —————- Print the Current Document
Command + Q —————- Quit the frontmost app
Command + S —————- Save the running document
Command + T —————- Show or Hide the Font Window
Command + U —————- Underline the selected Text or Toggle underline On/Off
Command + V ———– Paste Copied Items or Text and Start up in Verbose Mode
Command + W ————— Close the frontmost window
Command + X ———– Remove Selected Item / Place a Copy on Clipboard
Command + R ———– Use OS X Recovery
Command + S ———— Start Up in Single User Mode
Command + Z ———— Undo the previous action or command
Command + Option + A ————–Deselects All Items
Command + Option + D ————– Show or Hide Dock
Command + Option + T ————– Show/Hide toolbar when single tab is opened in Finder Window
Command + Option + V ————–Move selected files from original location to current location
Command + Option + Y ————–View a QuickLook slideshow of your selected files
Command + Shift + Z ———— Redo
Command + Shift + P —————- Display a window for specifying document parameters
Command + Shift + S —————– Display the Save as dialog box or duplicate the current document
Command + Control + D ————– Show or Hide definition of selected word
Command + Control + T ————–Add to Sidebar ( OS X Mavericks )
Command + Control + I ————– Get Summary Info
Command + Option + F —————- Move to Search Field Control
Command + Shift + F —————– Show all my files Window
Command + Shift + G —————– Find the previous occurrence of the selection
Command + Shift + H —————– Open the Home Folder for currently Logged in user
Command + Shift + I —————– Open iCloud Drive
Command + Option + H ————– Hide the Windows of all Other running apps
Command + Option + W ————– Close all Windows in current app
Command + Option + I —————- Display an inspector Window
Command + Shift + K —————– Open Network Window
Command + Shift + L —————– Open Downloads Folder
Command + Shift + O —————– Open Documents Folder
Command + Shift + R —————– Open the AirDrop Window
Command + Shift + F —————– Open Utilities Folder
Command + Option + M ————– Minimize all windows of the active dock
Command + Option + P ————– Show/Hide the Path bar
Command + Option + S ————– Show/Hide the sidebar
Command + Spacebar ———— Show or hide the spotlight search
Command + Delete —————– Select Don’t Save in Dialog box that contain a delete or Don’t save buttons
Command + Shift + Delete —————– Empty Trash
Command + Shift + Option + Delete —————– Empty Trash without confirmation dialog
Command + Option + Spacebar ————— Show the spotlight search result window
Command + Tab ——————- Move Forward
Command + Option + R —————- Use Internet Recovery on Supported Computers
Command + Shift + 3 —————— Capture the Screen to the file
Command + Shift + 4 ——————- Capture a Selection of a window to the file
Command + Shift + Control + 3 ——————- Capture the screen to the Clipboard
Command + Shift + Control + 4 ——————– Capture a selection of the screen to Clipboard
Command + Control + Power Button —————– Force Restart and Quit All Apps then restart the computer
Command + Option +Power Button ——————– Sleep and quit all apps then shutdown the computer
Command + Shift + Option + V ———————- Apple the style of surrounded text to the inserted object
Command + Shift + Q ————————— Log Out
Command + Shift + Option + Q —————– Immediate Log Out
Command + F1 —————– Toggle Mirror Display
Command + F2 —————– Toggle Target Display mode
Command + F3 —————– Show Desktop
Command + F5 —————– Toggle VoiceOver On or OFF
Command Plus ( + ) —————- Increase the size of selected window
Command + Minus ( – ) ———— Decrease the Size of Selected Item
Command + Colon ( : ) ————- Display Spelling and Grammar Window
Command + Semicolon (;) ————- Find Misspelled words in Window
Command + Comma ( , ) ————— Open the front app preference window
Command + Accent ( ‘ ) ————— Activate the next open window in the frontmost app
Command + Question Mark ( ? ) ————- Open the Help menu
Command + Option + Esc ——————— Choose an app to force quit
Command + Shift + Option + Esc —————– Force Quit the frontmost app
Command + Shift + Accent ( ‘ ) ————— Activate the previous open window in the fronmost app
Command + Option + Accent ( ‘ ) ————— Move focus to Window Drawer
Command + Option + Plus (+) —————– Zoom In
Command + Option + Minus ( – ) —————– Zoom Out
Command + Option + Comma ( , ) —————– Reduce Contrast
Command + Option + Period ( . ) —————– Increase Contrast
Command + Option + Control + 8 —————– Invert/Revert the screen colors
Command + Forward Slash ( / ) ——————– Show/Hide Status Bar
Command + 1 ——————– View as icon
Command + 2 ——————– View as List
Command + 3 ——————– View as Column
Command + 4 ——————– View as Cover Flow
Command + Left Bracket ( [ ) ——————– Go to the Previous Folder
Command + Right Bracket ( ] ) ——————– Go to the Next Folder
Command + Up Arrow ——————– Open the folder which contains current or running folder
Command + Option + Up Arrow ——————– Open the folder which contains current or running folder in a new window
Command + Down Arrow ——————– Open Highlighted Item
Command + Double Click ——————– Open a Folder in separate window and closes the current window
Command + Click the Window Title ——————– See the folder which contains current running window
Command while dragging ———————— Move the dragged item to another location
Command + Option Key while dragging ———————— Make an alias of dragged items or folders
Option or Alt ———————- Display all Startup Volumes
Shift ——————— Start Up in Safe mode
C ———————- Start From Bootable Media
D ———————- Use Apple Hardware Test
T ———————- Start up in Target Disk Mode
N ———————- Start from NetBoot Server
X ———————- Force OS X Start Up
Hold Power button for 1.5 seconds ——————————– Restart/ Shut down dialog box/ sleep
Control + Power Button —————————— Show the Restart/ Shutdown/ Sleep dialog box
Shift + Control + Power Button ——————— Put all Displays to Sleep
fn+Delete ———————— Forward Delete
fn+ Up Arrow ————————Scroll Up one Page
fn+ Down Arrow ————————Scroll Down One Page
fn+ Right Arrow ————————Scroll to the Beginning of the web page
fn+ Left Arrow ————————Scroll to the end of the document
Option + Right Arrow ———————– Move the text insertions to the end of the next word
Option + Left Arrow ———————– Move the text insertions to the beginning of the previous word
Option + Delete ———————– Delete the word which is left of the cursor
Shift + Left Arrow ——————– Extend Text Selection one character to the left
Shift + Right Arrow ——————–Extend Text selection one character to the right
Shift + Up Arrow ——————– Extend text selection to the line above at the same horizontal location
Shift + Down Arrow ——————– Extend text selection to the line below at the same horizontal location
Shift + Option + Right Arrow ———————– Extend text selection to the end of the current word, then to the end of the following word when you will press it again
Shift + Option + Left Arrow ———————– Extend text selection to the beginning of the current word, then to the beginning of the following word when you will press it again
Shift + Option + Down Arrow ———————– Extend text selection to the end of the current paragraph, then to the end of the following paragraph when you will press it again
Shift + Option + Up Arrow ———————– Extend text selection to the beginning of the current paragraph, then to the beginning of the following paragraph when you will press it again
Control + A ———————–Move to the Beginning of the line or Paragraph
Control + B ———————–Move one character backward
Control + D ———————–Delete the Character in front of the cursor
Control + E ———————–Move to the Beginning of the line or Paragraph
Control + F ———————– Move one character forward
Control + H ———————–Delete the Character Behind the cursor
Control + K ———————–Delete from the Cursor in front of the cursor to the end of the paragraph or line
Control + L ———————–Center the cursor or selection in the visible area
Control + N ———————–Move Down One Line
Control + O ———————–Insert New line after a cursor
Control + P ———————–Move up one line
Control + T ———————–Transpose the character behind the cursor
Control + V ———————–Move Down
Option + Control + F8 ———————– Open VoiceOver Utility
Tab ————————– Move to the next control
Shift + Tab —————— Move to the previous control
Control + Tab ————— Move to the next control
Shift + Control + Tab ——————– Move focus to the previous grouping of control
Control + Arrow Keys ——————– Move to a control adjacent to text field
Space bar ———————- Select the highlighted menu item
Enter ——————— Click the default button
Esc ———————— Click the cancel button
Shift + Control + F6 ———————— Move Focus to the previous panel
Control + F7 ————————- Temporarily override the current keyboard access mode in windows and dialog boxes
Control + F8 ————————- Move to the status menu in the menu bar
Numeric Keypad 8 —————— Move Up
Numeric Keypad 2 —————— Move Down
Numeric Keypad 4 —————— Move Left
Numeric Keypad 6 —————— Move Right
Numeric Keypad 1 —————— Move diagonally bottom left
Numeric Keypad 3 —————— Move diagonally bottom right
Numeric Keypad 7 —————— Move diagonally top left
Numeric Keypad 9 —————— Move diagonally top right
Numeric Keypad 5 ——————Press Mouse Button
Numeric Keypad 0 ——————Hold Mouse button