Mac OS X Text Selection Shortcuts

Posted by Charlie V.

Did you know you have multiple ways of selecting text in Mac OS X? Here are some great time-saving tips to help you highlight text faster!

1. To select text one word at a time, double click on your starting word, and then begin dragging your mouse, words will be highlighted in their entirety, instead of one character at a time.

2. To select text on paragraph at a time, triple click on your starting paragraph, and then begin dragging your mouse, paragraphs will be highlighted in their entirety.

3. Double click on any word in OS X to highlight the entire word.

4. Triple click on any word within a paragraph, and OS X will highlight the entire paragraph.

5. Another method that beats dragging your mouse across text to highlight is to hold down the Shift key, click where you want to start highlighting text, then click where you want to stop highlighting text (while shift is still held down). Voila, your text is highlighted right where you wanted without trying to hold down the mouse button and scroll at the same time.

I hope these tips save you time and frustration when selecting text in OS X!

-Charlie

Quicktips: iCal

Posted by Charlie V.

If you’re an iCal user, you know that there are three common ways to view your events and to-do items, day view, week view and month view. What if you wanted to switch between these quickly without taking your hands off the keyboard? You can with these useful keyboard shortcuts!

CMD⌘ + 1    Switch to Day view

CMD⌘ + 2    Switch to Week view

CMD⌘ + 3    Switch to Month view

CMD⌘ + R Arrow    Advance to next day, week or month, depending on your current view

CMD⌘ + L Arrow    Move to previous day, week or month, depending  on your current view

CMD⌘ + OPTION + (numberkey 1-7)    Can display multiple multiple days at once, select how many days you want to view at a time, and press that number key

CMD⌘ + N    Create a new event

CMD⌘ + K    Create a new to do

Enjoy!

-Charlie