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Here are some of the most useful keyboard shortcuts for macOS.

For Apple users, the proprietary keys can be daunting at first, but they offer a host of great shortcuts to make your workday easier.

There are the old standards, such as cut and paste, but you can take it so much further.

Hopefully these tips will make you a more productive user of your Apple machine at work.

Start by holding down the command key and pressing tab to cycle through applications.

Each time you press tab, it will switch to the next application in line.

Command Spacebar This shortcut simply opens the spotlight search and moves your cursor into the search bar.

This is a great tool to help you quickly get to a buried file or folder.

Shift Control Power button If you use multiple displays this will be especially helpful, as this combination immediately puts all displays to sleep.

Command Shift G When you have a finder window open, use this shortcut to open a direct line to a specific folder.

Simply put the folder path in the space the appears and it will take you directly to the folder.

By pressing command and the right bracket () you can move to the next folder.

Command Shift V This shortcut is a life-saver for anyone who regularly works in Safari.

This is the shortcut for Paste and Match Style, which basically means you can copy and paste something without its previous formatting.

Command Shift 3 If you need to quickly take a screenshot of your full screen, this shortcut will do that, and save it as a file on your desktop.

If you modify it as Command Shift Control 3, it will save it to the clipboard.

If you modify it as Command Shift Control 4, it will save it to the clipboard.

Command Semicolon Use this shortcut to find all misspelled words in a given document.

By holding command and continuously hitting the semicolon (;) it will cycle through the misspelled words.

Modify this as Command Colon (Shift Semicolon) to open the spelling and grammar window.

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