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never has a keyboard shortcut. If you use that command frequently, it might
benefit from an All Applications shortcut.
• Your keyboard may have keys you rarely if ever press (F13-F15, anyone?), and
they can be put to good use. Most of these keys have preassigned shortcuts,
which you can see by looking through the various categories of System
Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts, but if you think a key can serve you better
by performing a different action, you should feel completely free to change it.
Tip: If you're having trouble remembering all the keyboard shortcuts for your various
apps (either built-in shortcuts or those you created), try the KeyCue utility, which
pops up a context-sensitive list of shortcuts whenever you press the Command key.
Use OS X Text Substitutions and Transformations
If you look at the Edit menu in TextEdit, Mail, Messages, Safari, and numerous other
applications that include text editing features, you'll see a Substitutions submenu and a
Transformations submenu. These two submenus contain shortcuts for manipulating text.
You don't have to do anything to make them appear (and you can't add the commands
in apps that don't natively support them), but I think everyone should know about them,
because they're often useful—yet overlooked.
Substitutions
As you work with text in supported apps, OS X can automatically change certain attributes in
order to make your text more readable and useful. When an item on the Edit > Substitutions
submenu is checked, it means that substitution is enabled for that app (only) until you
deselect it. (Choose a menu command again to toggle it.)
Substitution options are as follows:
Smart Copy/Paste: If you double-click a word to select it, and then copy and
paste it, a space is added before and/or after if necessary to separate it from
the adjacent text. Similarly, if you double-click a word to select it and then
pressDelete,extraspacesareremoved. (Smartcopy/pastedoesnotoccurifyou
manually drag to select the word.)
Smart Quotes: As you type, this feature converts straight quotation marks
and apostrophe ( " ' ) into curly quotation marks and apostrophes (“” '').
Smart Dashes: As you type, this feature converts two consecutive hyphens
( -- ) into an em dash (—).
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