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Keyboard Shortcuts In Mac OS X
Mar 13, 2025
A video of the top 10 keyboard shortcuts in Mac OS X, and how they compare to the Windows counterparts.
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hey everyone today I'm going to show you
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keyboard commands in Mac OS 10 and what
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I mean by this is if you're a recent Mac
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switcher and you're used to Windows you
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and you're like me you'll probably want
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to know all the keyboard shortcuts you
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can when I switched over that was the
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first thing I wanted to know about
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because I use keyboard shets all the
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time they save me a ton of time when I'm
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doing everything and that's the first
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thing I wanted to know
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and it was difficult until I knew the
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keyboard shortcuts so I'm going to show
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you probably the top 10 keyboard
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shortcuts that most people will use as
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well as probably what are the most used
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from coming from Windows and how they're
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different from their Windows
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counterparts so we're going to start
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with some basic ones here so I've got a
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blank text edit document open and I'm
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just going to write test now a lot of
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the keyboard shortcuts are nearly
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identical to their Windows
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counterparts but for the except for the
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fact that they use command instead of
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control so you'll see the keyboard
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shortcuts on the bottom of the screen
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here as I'm pressing them so the first
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one for copy on Windows would be contrl
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C on Mac it's command C then you've
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copied it and this goes with paste too
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on Windows it would be contrl V on the
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Mac it is command V so it's very similar
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that if you're used to using Windows
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you'll be right at home with this and
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the same goes for cut on Windows it' be
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control X on Mac it is command
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X and then of course you could paste it
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once again with command
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V and then undo on Windows is contrl Z
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on the Mac it's command Z so all very
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similar and very familiar if you're used
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to using a
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PC so next up is save now on a PC it
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would be contrl S on the Mac it's
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command s so very similar and pretty
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much the
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same so that you can kind of see how
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these keyboard shortcuts really aren't
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that much different from Windows to Mac
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and if you're completely new to keyboard
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shortcuts altogether all I'm doing is
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I'm holding down the command key and
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then pressing whatever key that
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corresponds with it so I'm holding down
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command and then I press V and that
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pastes
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it now another thing you might be used
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to in Windows is uh control Al delete
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which is for your task manager on the
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Mac it it's very similar the application
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for that but you don't press control or
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delete instead it's called activity
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monitor and there is no keyboard
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shortcut for that but you can easily
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find it by going up to the right hand
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corner of your screen clicking on the
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spotlight icon
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and then typing in activity
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monitor and then it'll show up right
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there for
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you and that's how you can find
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that now on Windows you would use alt
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plus tab to switch
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between open windows open applications
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you just hit alt and then press
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tab on the Mac once again it's very
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similar but it's command Tab and then
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you can switch between your open
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application that way so very similar um
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all I'm doing is holding down command
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and then tapping the Tab
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Key and on Windows to quit applications
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you hold down alt and then hit f4 on the
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Mac it's a little bit different probably
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more different than the rest it's
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command Q so you just hold down command
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and then hit
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q and that's how that works and then
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another feature if you're in the finder
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or on windows in Windows Explorer
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to find something you would
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hit control or sorry Windows key plus F
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and then you'd be able to find something
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and on the Mac there's two ways of doing
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this you can either hit command F and
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that'll find something in your finder
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window or command Space Bar opens up the
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spotlight window and you can search for
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things from there so you have two
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options uh where in the windows you only
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have one uh they both do different
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things but they're both useful over
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overall so those are probably the top 10
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keyboard shortcuts if you're on Windows
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you'd be used
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to that you might not know when you're
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coming over to the back so I hope this
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video helped you out and maybe it'll
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save you a lot of time down the road
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thank you for watching
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