{"id":453,"date":"2009-02-27T17:00:07","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T23:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/?p=453"},"modified":"2014-05-22T13:42:22","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T18:42:22","slug":"use-your-keyboard-to-speed-up-your-work-flow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/453-use-your-keyboard-to-speed-up-your-work-flow\/","title":{"rendered":"Use your keyboard to speed up your work flow."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-454\" src=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/turbo_kb.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"191\" \/>No matter how often you use a computer, you never really know everything. Sure, you may have the basics down and may be amazingly efficient in your day-to-day applications, but there\u2019s always that <em>one<\/em> thing that could, over time, speed up your work flow.<\/p>\n<p>As Mac users, one of those things we often overlook is the use of keyboard commands. While MacOS has always been very menu-driven, most of the common menu commands <em>also<\/em> have a keyboard equivalent.\u00a0Rather than moving the mouse to a particular spot, clicking and going back to your work, you can hit a key or two and continue mousing\/typing\/etc. without stopping. Over time, that results in time savings.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, I came across a coworker who, in order to take a screenshot of a window, would open up the Grab application (Applications&gt;Utilities&gt;Grab), Select \u201cWindow\u201d from the \u201cCapture\u201d menu and use that to select the window he wanted.<\/p>\n<p>A much faster (and easier) method would have been to hit Command-Shift-4, then hit the Space Bar to turn the cursor into a camera. All you need to do then is click the desired window to get the screen shot.<\/p>\n<p>Considerably faster.<\/p>\n<p>Poking around Apple\u2019s Knowledge Base, I found a nice little article that shows many of the major system-wide keyboard shortcuts in OS X. I even learned of one or two that I wasn\u2019t aware of, myself. You may want to <a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/HT1343\" target=\"_blank\">check it out for\u00a0yourself<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, this info can help speed up your work flow by utilizing both the mouse <em>and<\/em> the keyboard to get around OS X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No matter how often you use a computer, you never really know everything. Sure, you may have the basics down and may be amazingly efficient in your day-to-day applications, but there\u2019s always that one thing that could, over time, speed up your work flow. 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