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<\/p>\nEvery one of us makes a trip to the Apple menu almost every day, be it to shut down, restart or sleep our Macs. Even though it probably doesn\u2019t seem like much of a chore, learning a few shortcuts can’t hurt and will save precious seconds every time you use this menu. Let’s start with how to make using the Apple menu with the mouse a bit quicker.<\/p>\n
Something annoying about shutting down or restarting a Mac is the way that you have to go to the \uf8ff menu, click Shut Down or Restart then click another button in a dialog box asking, “Are you sure you want to do that?” However, there is a simple way to bypass this dialog box, using a single modifier key on the keyboard. Holding Option and clicking on the command you want gets right down to business and does what you want straight away. You’ll be able to tell because the ellipsis (\u2026) will disappear from the Restart, Shut Down and Log Out commands in the menu. And don’t worry; your unsaved documents are still safe — you’ll still see the “Do you want to save changes?” dialog come up. There’s no way to bypass that.<\/p>\n
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OK, so that saved a few seconds by eliminating the move from the menu command to the dialog box, but what about saving even more time by using the keyboard instead? There are four key shortcuts for the main commands: Shut Down, Restart, Sleep and Log Out. There’s also one extra that isn’t in the menu: Sleep Display.<\/p>\n
The first, which has been labeled in the Apple menu since OS 10.6, is Sleep. The keyboard command is Option + Command + Eject (\u2325\u2318\u23cf). This puts the computer straight to sleep without asking you anything. Very handy if you want to dash off somewhere in a hurry.<\/p>\n
Next is the shortcut for Log Out, which is also labeled in the menu. However, to bypass the confirmation dialog, you have to add in the Option key, making the shortcut Option + Shift + Command + Q (\u2325\u21e7\u2318Q).<\/p>\n
To put the displays of your Mac to sleep (I do this in order to let my Mac run a process overnight but still saving power), it’s Control + Shift + Eject (\u2303\u21e7\u23cf).<\/p>\n
Restarting is a simple case of pressing Control + Command + Eject (\u2303\u2318\u23cf). Dialogs for\u00a0unsaved changes will still appear.<\/p>\n
Finally, to shut down your Mac using the keyboard, press Control + Option + Command + Eject (\u2303\u2325\u2318\u23cf).<\/p>\n
That’s a lot of key combinations to remember, but even if you use just one of them every day, the amount of time you’ll save will soon add up.<\/p>\n
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