I have been using Pages for a lot of my desktop publishing needs while on my Mac, however, I still need people in the PC world to view my documents. I have been using the Export function quite a lot and noticed that it does not have a shortcut key next to it. What is its shortcut key?

This is a great question and actually a problem that I have encountered when using other programs. As I love to use shortcuts I find it rather annoying when the one command I use the most doesn’t have a shortcut. The solution: Create one yourself.

Step 1: Go to your System Preference and click on Keyboard and Mouse Pane.

Step 2: Select the Keyboard Shortcuts Tab as shown above. Then click the + to add a new shortcut.

Step 3: In the dialog box that pops up above just select the application you want to create the shortcut for, in this case, Pages. Don’t worry if it isn’t listed, just click other and select the application via the Finder popup window.

Step 4: Enter a menu title. This is the only really important part that you can screw up on. You must enter the command exactly as it shows up in the application so in this situation the command in Pages is “Export…” Note: if you are creating the ellipsis for this command you can type it by pressing Option+;

Step 5: Enter your keyboard shortcut. For this example I went with Cmd+E

Step 6: Restart the application you created the shortcut for and just like that you have a new shortcut. It will even show up in the menu for those times when you forget the newly created shortcut.

Now you can all go ahead and create new shortcuts for any application you want.

If you’re looking for a quick and easy way to send email attachments there is no faster way than by using Mail.

We all know the standard way. Open Mail…Select New Message…click on
the Attachment Paper Clip icon…fill out your email…and Send.

There is actually a much quicker way to do this. Just take the
attachment you would like to send, and drag it to the Mail icon in the
Dock. Mail will launch, a new message will pop up, and your file will
already be attached.

Fill our your email, and click Send.

via Mactips.org