Switching from Windows to Mac? Keep your habits

Click an icon and its window opens. Click it again and it tucks back into the bar.

One click brings any app to the front. As an option, Win + a number jumps straight to it.

Drag an icon to a new spot. The others make room, and it stays where you drop it.

Hover an icon to see all its windows. Glide over one to Peek at it full size, or close it from there.

Windows on your other desktops show up too. Click one and you’re there.

When an app needs you, its icon glows orange and a red badge counts what’s new.

Type to find apps, files and settings. Type a sum and the answer is already there.

Click the clock for your calendar, with your latest captures on top. Hover one to see it big.

Notifications wait above the calendar, with a count by the clock. Swipe one away to the right, or click its ✕.

Click the tray for quick settings. Mute, dim the screen, turn on Do Not Disturb or dark mode in one click.

Click the corner at the right end of the bar and every window steps aside. Click again and they’re back.

Full width like Windows, or floating like a Mac. Pick one of 5 themes, or keep the Mac’s glass look.

As an option, hide the Mac’s menu bar: it comes back when you touch the top. A filled window stops above the taskbar.

Let the bar slide away until you need it. Touch the bottom of the screen and it’s back.

Tuck the icons at the top of the screen behind one arrow. Click it again to bring them back.

Right-click an icon for its recent and pinned files. One click opens the one you need.

The screen freezes and dims. Draw a frame, its size shows as you go, and the capture is copied.

Click the clock: your latest captures sit above the calendar. Hover one to see it big.

Open it in the editor. Point with an arrow, number the steps 1, 2, 3, and blur what’s private.

Click Shapes for lines, arrows, callouts, stars and check marks. Drag a yellow handle to reshape it, the round one to turn it.

Type a note: the box wraps as you write. Select a word to make it bold, bigger or red.

Read text finds every word in the capture. Copy it in one click, or show it as a QR code.

From the Image menu, add a border, a white margin with a shadow, or a coloured background.

Pin a capture and it floats above every app. Drag it, scroll to resize, make it see-through.

⌥ + Print Screen: each window lights up under the cursor. Click one to capture just that window.

Select, press Ctrl + C, then Ctrl + V where you want it. Your Mac gets ⌘ C and ⌘ V, so it works everywhere.

Shortcuts follow the letter you type, not where the key sits: AZERTY, QWERTY or another layout, they just work.

Tap Alt: a letter shows under each menu. Type it to open that menu, then use the arrows and Enter.

Alt + F4 closes the window in front, never the whole app: your other windows stay open.

Home and End go to the ends of the line, Ctrl + arrows jump word by word, Shift selects and Ctrl + Backspace deletes a word.

Ctrl + Z undoes, Ctrl + Y redoes, as on Windows. On a Mac, redo is ⇧ ⌘ Z: WinPlug sends it for you.

Ctrl + Alt + Del opens Activity Monitor, the Mac’s task list: see what’s running and quit an app that’s stuck.

In terminals, code editors and virtual machines, Ctrl keeps its own job: Ctrl + C copies in your notes, but stops a command here.

Ctrl + Alt + Win + W turns WinPlug off: your Mac is exactly as it was. Press it again to bring everything back.

Hold ⌥ and tap Tab to walk through every open window. Let go and the one you picked comes to the front.

A quick ⌥ + Tab takes you back to the window you just left. No panel, no wait.

Glide over the cards and each window shows full size, right where it sits on your screen.

The arrows move card by card, and ↑ ↓ jump a whole row.

Press S and type a few letters: only the matching windows stay. Enter opens the one you want.

W closes the window, M minimizes it and Q quits the app, without leaving the keyboard.

Minimized windows and hidden apps are in the grid too. Pick one and it’s back.

⌘ + Tab shows the same grid of windows, not just a row of apps.

As an option, windows on your other desktops join the grid. Pick one and you’re there.

Without the Screen Recording permission, cards show icons and titles. Nothing on your screen is captured.

⌘ + Ctrl + ⇧ + → sends the window you’re in to the next desktop, and you go with it. ← brings it back.

Tap ⌘ + Tab twice, quickly, and you reach the next window of the same app.

Double-click a ZIP and you’re inside, no unzipping. Space previews a photo, and you can drag one straight out.

⌫ takes you back. In Details view, folders unfold right in the list and their sizes fill in.

Click, pause, click to rename in place. Deleted it by mistake? ⌘ + Z brings it back.

⌘ + X, Tab to the other pane, ⌘ + V. The transfers bar shows the speed and the time left.

The layouts you know, from Extra large icons to Content, on ⌘ + ⇧ + 1 to 8. Then slide to any thumbnail size.

Click › for a folder’s subfolders, or paste a path and press Enter.

Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive or iCloud Drive sit in the tree with a Status column. Disk bars and Disk Usage show where the space went.

Right-click › New for a blank document, named in place. Add a color tag, then ⌥ + Enter for its Properties.