Exploring your laptop will allow you to find many different uses and shortcuts on your MacBook but do you know everything you could? Keep reading to find shortcuts you might not have known existed.
If you want to Right-Click, Click on your trackpad with 2 fingers at the same time
If you Can’t Find Your Cursor, run your finger rapidly back and forth across the trackpad. This will make your cursor grow. Stop when you have located your cursor and it will shrink back to normal.
If you want to turn your sound down without making noise, press and hold down shift while adjusting the volume.
If you want to take a screenshot of the page, click command + shift + 3 to take a screenshot of the whole screen or click command + shift + 4 to select what area of the screen you want to screenshot or click command + shift + 5 to choose if you want to screenshot a selected portion/the whole screen/selected window
If you want to record your screen, go into QuickTime player. Press file, new Screen recording and you can record either your whole screen or just a portion of it.
If you want to look a word up in an article, put your cursor on top of the word and touch your trackpad with 3 fingers at the same time.
Click command + F to search for a word in the document/web browser/application you are in.
If you want to delete the character to the right instead of the left, click fn + delete
If you want to switch to a new desktop, first put 3 fingers on the bottom of the trackpad and drag it up. Then click the plus in the top right corner of the screen. This will add another desktop. In order to get to that desktop, put 3 fingers on the trackpad and swipe left still holding your fingers on the trackpad.