It's Wednesday, so it's time for Hump Day Q 'n A. A chance for me to try and help out on any tech question you might have or just offer up my advice.
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Question #1: Mac keyboard remap?
I want to make CTRL + Arrow move the cursor one word at a time.
(I know that Option + Arrow already does that, but I am having an impossible time training my fingers to hit that next key over)
Also, of course, CTRL + SHIFT + Arrow should highlight one word at a time.
It also wouldn't be terrible if CTRL + C = Cut and CTRL + V = Paste.
Again, I know COMMAND + C and COMMAND + V do that... It's a pinky dexterity issue!!!
Answer
In
System Preferences go to
Keyboard and Mouse. Select the
Keyboard tab and click on the
Modifier Keys... button. From here you can swap the Command and Control keys that seem to be giving you such a problem. Now keep in mind this may cause havoc when application are trying to give you instructions on what to do, and you have the keys reversed. My advice would just take some more time and try to learn the proper Mac key combo's. As someone who switched to Mac after years of windows it took me a while to teach my fingers a new way of operating, but now I wish I could re-map Windows keyboards whenever I have to use that!... Thanks for the question. - Paul
Update: For more flexablily and to help remap the option key.. look at
DoubleCommand