Keyboard shortcuts..including that pesky Print Screen
Friday, 28th March, 2008 – 08:00 by Rosemary HortonAre you like me? Do you have to use Windows at work and prefer an Apple at home? I find mostly this causes no problem, except with keyboard shortcuts. My mind sometimes just glitches.
For common things like Copy (Option + C) ; paste Option + V) ; Cut (Option + X) things are usually pretty easy to remember, but Print Screen etc that’s another story!
Many lists have funny symbols. Eg What’s the command key? That’s the one with apple on, or the funny curvy square , between the option button and the space bar, it looks like this. 
- Command
Control
Option or Alt
Shift
Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts
Apple’s list is good, but is not completely comprehensive
However, for our Print Screen
Command-Shift-3 takes a picture of the screen
Command-Shift-4 takes a picture of a selection
Command-Shift-4, then press Control while selecting Take a picture of the screen, place in Clipboard
Command-Shift-4, then spacebar Take a picture of the selected window
More
Keyboard Shortcuts Apple Human Interface Guidelines Apple developer
Keyboard Shortcuts Macrumors
Magical Macintosh Key Sequences Dave Polaschek
70+ Keyboard shortcuts to move faster in Apple Mac OS X Tech Republic pdf file
What’s your favourite keyboard shortcut?
MacWizardry
2 Responses to “Keyboard shortcuts..including that pesky Print Screen”
A keyboard shortcut I use a lot is command+tab to cycle through open applications.
By Edward on Apr 1, 2008
In case anyone’s wondering, the screen captures are called Picture 1.png, Picture 2.png and are deposited on the Desktop… (except of course, the captures to clipboard!)
By Rod on Apr 1, 2008