Quicker typo editing and better text input using Option and Command
April 29th, 2009
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In the course of writing this article I will make some of the most horrendous spelling and grammatical mistakes—because, to be honest, I’m just not that good at typing.
Happily, as you can see from the video linked below, holding the Option key and combining it with the Command key, arrow keys and Shift key, makes whole word selection, deletion and dictionary / thesaurus searching process of doing what they used to call word processing all the quicker and easy to do.
⌘ + CTRL + D with mouse-over – Open floating dictionary / wikipedia / dictionary
⌘ + Arrow keys – Paragraph / line skip
⌥ + Arrow keys – Word / line end skip
⌥ + Shift + Arrow keys – Highlight whole word / line
⌘ + Shift + L – Google current selection
