The screenshot shortcuts on macOS are Cmd + 3, Cmd + 4 and Cmd + 5, with the numbers you have to press being in the number row (not the numpad). It’ll bring out a new window with a larger preview which you can minimise by hitting space again.Ĭmd + down arrow is a quick shortcut to open apps in Finder. If you ever wish to enlarge the preview, just hit space while having the file selected. But I think this only works the way I describe it in column view – so be sure to use that. You can configure this in system preferences, not sure where but you can probably just search.įinder can preview almost any commonplace filetype directly in one of its windows, be it images, text files or even some 3D models. For example, I’ve got a “hide all active windows and show desktop” action bound to the bottom right-hand corner – deliberately so, because that’s where the button that does the same thing on Windows is located. You can bind many neat actions to sliding your mouse cursor to one of the corners of your screen. Hot corners! Really, really useful feature I wish Windows had. If you hold alt and hit the green button without waiting, the window will be resized to fit the entirety of your screen (minus dock and the bar at the top) without actually going into full-on fullscreen mode (“invasive fullscreen”, as i like to call it.) To access all of your options, hold alt and then hover over the green button at the top right of any window.

The window snapping gestures (to make a window occupy half of the screen for example) work a bit differently on macOS.

Learning macos for windows users