A common complaint users of other operating systems have about Mac OS X is its perceived lack of keyboard shortcuts. Many think you have to use the mouse for nearly everything in Mac OS X. I see many people who have switched from Windows to Mac do this while muttering about the lack of keyboard commands.
As a long-time Mac user and someone who likes to avoid touching the mouse as much as possible, I can tell you that this is about as far from the truth as you can get. You can in fact do just about anything in Mac OS X without ever touching the mouse.
Granted, some of the shortcuts are pretty obscure since they don’t appear in menus – you have to know them to use them. That is probably the main reason for people believing that they don’t exist. So to help Mac OS X users, new and old, to make better use of their keyboard I wanted to share the Mac OS X keyboard commands I find myself using the most. Some are obvious and well known, others are more obscure.
Posted in Mac, Productivity.