Lydia Szabo has worked in IT training and operations for twelve years, teaching office teams Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, from first-week onboarding to spreadsheet clinics. She teaches the keys before the menus, with Mac and Windows side by side.
As editor she writes the Shortcuts, Spreadsheets, Productivity Apps, Automation and Mac & Windows sections, and checks every key on Shortcut Sheets against the maker’s own published list.
Start with the Mac’s built-in Text Replacements, then choose Espanso, AutoHotkey, Raycast, TextExpander or Keyboard Maestro by system, price and what you need.
The Excel shortcuts worth learning, grouped by job, with Mac and Windows keys side by side, why the Mac keys differ, and how to reach any command from the keys.
Which Mac keys do the jobs of Ctrl, Alt, the Windows key, Home, End, Delete and Ctrl+Alt+Delete, and how to swap the modifier keys so the Mac fits your hands.
Spotlight, Raycast and Alfred compared on price, the free tier, clipboard history, snippets and window management, and how to put your launcher on Cmd+Space.
The keys that move, select and delete text by the word, the line and the paragraph, Mac and Windows side by side, plus a ten-minute drill that makes them stick.
When to use XLOOKUP and when VLOOKUP is still the right one, in Excel and Google Sheets, with a VLOOKUP rewritten step by step and the keys to build it.
