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Use keyboard shortcuts

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Use keyboard shortcuts

- [Instructor] Let's talk about keyboard commands. These are actions that you can trigger by holding and pressing a few keys on your keyboard. I recommend you start with this webpage. Here, you can find a list of very common keyboard commands. If you don't already know, most of these require you to hold down a key on your keyboard, then tap another key. So for example, the copy command is a very popular option, and you can see the keyboard shortcut here requires you to hold the Command key, then tap the letter C. So it's important, you look at your keyboard and identify the modifier keys. Those are listed here, they're keys like Command, Option, Control and Shift. These modifier keys will be labeled on your keyboard, but some keyboards labeled them with these symbols instead of the full word, so it's good to take an opportunity to learn these symbols. And just a quick note, which is explained in this paragraph here, if you…

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