Create_Custom_Mac_Keyboard_Shortcuts

Let me quickly show you how to create custom keyboard shortcuts on your Mac. On a Mac you can assign a custom keyboard shortcut to any menu item in any application. You can even change the default shortcuts used by an app. 


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Create Custom Mac Keyboard Shortcuts in .. 

To do this go to System Preferences and then go to Keyboard. Then click on Shortcuts at the top.

Custom Mac Keyboard Shortcuts
Go to System Preferences and then go to Keyboard

Here you’ll see a list of system keyboard shortcuts. What you want to do is go down to the last item App Shortcuts. This will list all of your custom keyboard shortcuts. 

Custom Mac Keyboard Shortcuts
See a list of system keyboard shortcuts

To create one hit the Plus button here. You can also use the same method to just change keyboard shortcuts. 

Hit the Plus button

Then choose which application the menu item appears in and type the exact menu name.

Custom Mac Keyboard Shortcuts
Choose app
Custom Mac Keyboard Shortcuts
Type the name

If you want to remove one you’ve added you simply select it and hit the Minus button.

Custom Mac Keyboard Shortcuts
Remove it with Minus button

This works in Mac apps and third party apps. Anything that uses the Mac menu bar. The reason this exists is because each Mac user is a little different. There may be menu items that you use all the time that other people never use. So this gives you the ability to assign custom keyboard shortcuts to the things that matter the most to you.


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