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Keyboard shortcuts for working with text on macOS

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If you often work with text editing, then it is high time to learn some useful keyboard shortcuts that will simplify work in popular text editors, browsers, instant messengers, etc.

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  • Page Up and Page Down (like on a Windows PC. Where on the MacBook keyboard are the Page Up and Page Down buttons, we told you here) – scrolling the page content up or down.
  • fn + Backspace – analogue of the Delete key in Windows PC – deletes characters in the text if the cursor is in front of the word.
  • Alt + Page Up and Alt + Page Down – scrolls text up and down in one screen increments.
  • ⌘Cmd + left arrow and ⌘Cmd + right arrow – move the cursor to the beginning or end of the line.
  • ⌥Option (Alt) + left arrow and ⌥Option (Alt) + right arrow – move the cursor to the beginning or end of a word.
  • ⌥Option (Alt) + up arrow and ⌥Option (Alt) + down arrow – move the cursor to the beginning or end of the current paragraph.
  • ⌘Cmd + up arrow and ⌘Cmd + down arrow – move the cursor to the beginning or end of the text.
  • ⇧Shift + left arrow and ⇧Shift + right arrow – character-by-character selection of text to the left or to the right of the cursor.
  • ⇧Shift + ⌥Option (Alt) + Left Arrow and ⇧Shift + ⌥Option (Alt) + Right Arrow – selection of text to the left or to the right of the cursor by words.
  • ⇧Shift + ⌘Cmd + left arrow and ⇧Shift + ⌘Cmd + right arrow – selection of text to the left or to the right from the cursor to the end of the line.
  • ⇧Shift + up arrow and ⇧Shift + down arrow – selection of text from the cursor up or down the lines.
  • ⇧Shift + ⌥Option (Alt) + Up Arrow and ⇧Shift + ⌥Option (Alt) + Down Arrow – selection of text from the cursor up or down to the beginning or end of the paragraph.
  • ⇧Shift + ⌘Cmd + up arrow and ⇧Shift + ⌘Cmd + down arrow – selection of text from the cursor up or down to the beginning or end of the text.
  • ⌥Option (Alt) + Delete – deleting all characters to the left of the cursor within a word.
  • ⌘Cmd + Delete – delete all characters to the left of the cursor within the line.

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