CMD+T to open up a new chrome tab, type in doc.new to open up a blank Google Doc file, and start typing the title of the meeting, and who I’m meeting with.Let’s say I run into a meeting and need to start taking notes immediately: I also like to format my notes to make it look pretty so it’s not a pain to read. I take a lot of notes during meetings or when I’m brainstorming so I often use bullet points and numbered lists.

If you don’t have this set up by default, you need to go to: keyboard options, shortcuts, Input source, and make sure “select the previous input source” option is checked

For those of us working in 2 languages, CTRL+SPACE to switch between language inputs.

Honestly everyone should be hyperlinking because it just looks so much cleaner and it’s a lot more user-friendly for other people reading your doc I copy the text and instead of pressing a simple paste CMD+V, I press CMD+SHIFT+V and I get the text to match what I have For example, I want to copy text from another website or file into my own document, I want the font and size to stay the same.

CMD+SHIFT+V to paste without formatting.

CMD+F to find a word within the document, and the ESC key to quickly exit out of the find function and have the word highlighted.

However, I’m a very risk-averse person, so I like to make sure I’m highlighting the right text first, before deleting it. Some of you may point out that if I press CMD+BACKSPACE, that deletes the entire line, if I press OPTION+BACKSPACE that deletes the whole word directly. Sometimes I would finish writing out a long line of text, find something I want to change at the beginning, CMD+ARROW to go back, OPTION OPTION OPTION, highlight, find the word and replace it. Similarly, if you hold down OPTION+SHIFT ARROW, you highlight a word that you can easily replace if you want. This by itself may not be very useful, but if you hold down CMD+SHIFT ARROW you end up highlighting the entire line and you can delete it all at once instead of using your mouse to highlight the text.

You can jump to the start and end of a word while holding down OPTION, and using the arrow keys.

While holding down CMD, use the left and right arrows to jump between the start and end of a line of text.Watch it in action Keyboard Shortcuts for All Applications

Macbook shortcut for desktop