March 2012
Beginner
710 pages
28h 34m
English
Content preview from Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Lion Edition
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Keyboard
As you know by now, switching to the Mac entails switching your
brain, especially when it comes to the old keyboard shortcuts. All of
those Ctrl-key sequences become, on the Mac, 
-key sequences. (Check your Macintosh keyboard:
The key is right next to the space bar, usually on
both sides.)
But plenty of other Mac keys may seem unfamiliar. For your reassurance pleasure, Chapter 1 offers a rundown of what they do.
Text-Navigation Keystrokes
In Windows, you may have grown accustomed to certain common keystrokes for navigating text—key combinations that make the insertion point jump to the beginning or end of a word, line, or document, for example.
Mac OS X programs offer similar navigation keystrokes, as you can see here:
Function | Windows keys | Mac keys |
|---|---|---|
Move to previous/next word | Ctrl+←, Ctrl+→ | Option-←, Option-→ |
Move to beginning/end of line | Home/End | Home/End[a] |
Move to previous/next paragraph | Ctrl+↑, Ctrl+↓[a] | Option-↑, Option-↓[a] |
Move to top/bottom of window | Home/End | Home/End (but see below) |
Select all text | Ctrl+A |
|
Select text, one letter at a time | Shift+↑, Shift+↓ | Shift-↑, Shift-↓ |
Select text, one word at a time | Ctrl+Shift+arrow keys | Option-Shift-arrow keys |
Undo | Ctrl+Z | -Z |
Cut, Copy, Paste | Ctrl+X, C, V | -X, ... |
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