Then I went over to their cube and showed them how to do most of the same stuff in Windows. When the Windowz person saw that final one they simply hung their head in shame and returned to their cubicle with a look of defeat. Command-Option-Shift-Tab-M will minimize in slow motion. Press the Q key with an application highlighted and it will close that application. Press the Command-Shift-Tab and it will back up an application. Then press the Tab key again and it will move to the next application or continue pressing it and it will cycle through all of the open applications until coming back to your current application. For example, press Command-Tab and hold the Command key and you’ll keep the Application Picker window open. So I went on to show what else Command-Tab can do. Someone from the Windows side of the fence was peeking over my shoulder and was astonished that Mac OS X had that functionality. Among all Mac keyboard commands, this is the easiest.

To quickly shut down a Mac: Control + Option + Command + Eject. Learn this one, quickly finish your work and finally go outside. In the Tabs section, check the box next to “Use ⌘-1 to ⌘-9 to switch tabs.The other day I was sitting at a computer and I hit Command-Tab to shift between applications. It’s used when you need to quickly close all dialog windows and shut down your Mac in a legit way. There’s a lot you can do in your browser with shortcuts: re-open closed tabs, change screen/font size, automatically scroll. Open Safari, click the Apple logo on the menu bar and select Preferences. Browser shortcuts let you surf the web faster and more efficiently. If these shortcuts are opening your bookmarks instead, head to Safari’s preferences menu and activate the tab switch option. You can do this up to Command + 9, which opens the last or rightmost tab. Say you have 12 open tabs on Safari, pressing Command + 1 will switch to the 1st tab (from the right), Command + 7 will open the 7th tab, while Command + 3 opens the 3rd. Safari also lets you jump directly to the first 8 tabs and the last tab using dedicated shortcuts. These key combinations will take you one step backward and open the tab on the left: Command + Shift + Tab or Shift + Command + Left Squared bracket ( [ ).

Shift + Command + Right Squared bracket ( ] ) is an alternate shortcut that’ll yield a similar result. Press Control + Tab to jump to the next open tab on the right.

Mac command tab through all windows