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How to Copy and Paste on a Mac Using a Keyboard Shortcut

If you’ve been a long-time Windows user and have just recently started using a Mac, pressing CTRL + C and CTRL + V for copy and paste respectively is already thoroughly ingrained — so much so that you probably tried using the same key combinations on your Mac until you realized the CTRL key has been replaced with a key labeled “control.”

Don’t panic. While the Control key doesn’t have the same function on Macs as it does on Windows, there’s an equally quick way to perform copy and paste on a Mac and that is by pressing Command + C (⌘ + C) and Command + V (⌘ + V).

If you don’t want to be bothered with constantly pausing and reminding your fingers to use Command instead of the Control key, or if you want to use a Windows-based keyboard that doesn’t have a Command key to begin with, you can remap your Mac keys so that you can assign a different key for performing copy and paste on your Mac.

To remap your Mac keys:

1. Go to the Apple Menu
2. Open “System Preferences”
3. Click on “Keyboard”
4. Select “Shortcuts”
5. Click on “Modifier Keys”
6. Go to the “Command” field
7. Click on the drop-down menu
8. Select “Control”
9. Click “OK”

Please note that while remapping your Mac keys this way will apply the changes to the whole system, there are certain applications where it may not work. To ensure that your preferred keyboard shortcut for copy and paste on your Mac will also work on your frequently used applications:

1. Go to the Apple Menu
2. Open “System Preferences”
3. Click on “Keyboard”
4. Select “Shortcuts”
5. Select “App Shortcuts”
6. Click the “Add” button (the one with the + sign)
7. Select the app or apps for which you want your preferred keyboard shortcuts to be used.
   • If you can’t find your favorite application on the list, click “Other” then use the “Open” dialog box to search for it.
   • If you want your preferred shortcut for copy and paste to apply to all applications, just click on “All Applications.”
8. In the “Menu Title,” type in the command for which you want your shortcut to work (for example, type “Copy” if you want to assign a keyboard shortcut for copying and “Paste” if you want a keyboard shortcut for pasting things). Please make sure that you write the menu title exactly the same way the command is written on your favorite application’s menu (including capitalization and spaces).
9. Next, go to the “Keyboard Shortcut” field, then press the key combination that you want to use for the keyboard shortcut while you’re in the empty box beside it.
10. Click on “Add”

How to Copy and Paste on a Mac Using a Apple Magic Mouse

Many Windows users, employing a two-button mouse, know to right click in order to copy and paste. However, mice that come with Macs have only one button. The easiest way to copy and paste using a Magic Mouse is as follows:

1. Highlight the text that you want to copy
2. Hold down the Control button
3. Click the mouse button
4. Select “Copy” from contextual menu
5. Go to the place where you want to paste the text
6. Hold down the Control button
7. Click the mouse button
8. Select “Paste” from contextual menu

How to Copy and Paste on a Mac Using Your Trackpad

Aside from using a keyboard shortcut and your mouse, you can also use your trackpad to perform copy and paste on your Mac.

On Windows-based PCs, you usually do this by highlighting the text that you want to copy, pressing on the lower right corner of your trackpad which is equivalent to performing a right-click with your mouse, then selecting “Paste” from the menu.

On Macs, the process is similar: highlight the text that you want to copy, use two fingers to lightly tap around the center of your trackpad to bring up the contextual menu (the popup menu that appears when you initiate a “Control + mouse click), then selecting “Paste” from there.

Now, go and try to practice them so that you can get used to performing copy and paste on your Mac before you work on projects that require a lot of copying and pasting.

Good luck!

Mac Shortcut Paste Unformatted Text

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The Macintosh operating system has always made it easy to capture a screen shot. A screen shot is an image of your computer desktop or an active window. Here's a summary of all the keyboard shortcuts you can use to capture your screen in Mac OS X.

A. Entire screen:

1. To capture the entire screen, press Command-Shift-3. The screen shot will be automatically saved as a PNG file on your desktop with the filename starting with “Picture” followed by a number, example Picture 1, Picture 2, and so on.
2. To copy the entire screen, press Command-Control-Shift-3. The screen shot will be placed on your clipboard for you to paste into another program like PowerPoint, Word, Photoshop, etc.

B. Portion of the screen:

1. To capture a portion of the screen, press Command-Shift-4. A cross-hair cursor will appear and you can click and drag to select the area you wish to capture. When you release the mouse button, the screen shot will be automatically saved as a PNG file on your desktop following the same naming convention as explained on the first tip above.
2. To copy a portion of the screen to the clipboard, press Command-Control-Shift-4. A cross-hair cursor will appear and you can click and drag to select the area you wish to capture. When you release the mouse button, you can paste the screen shot to another application.

C. Specific application window:

Mac Keyboard Shortcuts

1. To capture a specific application window, press and hold Command-Shift-4 then tap on the Spacebar. The cursor will change to a camera, and you can move it around the screen. As you move the cursor over an application window, the window will be highlighted. The entire window does not need to be visible for you to capture it. When you have the cursor over a window you want to capture, just click the mouse button and the screen shot will be saved as a PNG file on your desktop.
2. To copy a specific application window, press and hold Command-Control-Shift-4 then tap on the Spacebar. The cursor will change to a camera, which you can move around the screen. As you move the cursor over an application window, the window will be highlighted. The entire window does not need to be visible for you to capture it. When you have the cursor over a window you want to capture, just click the mouse button and you can paste the screen shot into another application.

Mac Shortcut For Paste Special

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