Here are a selection of great OS X shortcuts:
cmd + shift + 3 - screenshot
cmd + shift + 3 - cropped screenshot
cmd + shift + 3 then press spacebar will crop the screenshot around the current window
ctrl + cmd + space - full emoji keyboard
cmd + ~ - switches between windows in same application
shift + option when changing volume uses quarter increments
cmd + option + shift + V - paste & match text formatting
cmd + space - shows spotlight
cmd + H - hides active application
cmd + opt + H - hides all windows not in focus
alt + backspace - delete a whole word instead of a letter at a time
control + command + power (eject) - system restart
cmd + shift + i (from a Safari or Chrome) - creates a new email with the URL of the page you were visiting in the body
control + d - replicates the ‘Delete’ key from non-mac keyboards
option + right click on a dock app to show force quit
option + click on wifi icon in menu bar to show wireless speed, strength and other useful details
Thanks to reddit.com/r/apple for some of these.
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