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Change the Shortcut for Screen Captures in Mac OS X (10.4)

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Introduction

Mac OS X has a great built-in screen capture utility but the default key command for capturing a picture to the clipboard is a little cumbersome (cmd-ctrl-shift-4). This lesson will show you how to change it to something a little easier to use.

This lesson applies to Mac OS 10.4.

Select System Preferences From the Apple Menu

Select Keyboad & Mouse

Select Keyboard Shortcuts

Select the Keyboard Shortcuts tab and expand the Screen Shots section.

Change Shortcut

Double-click on the Shortcut column and press the new key combination. In this example I have used cmd-shift-3.

IMPORTANT: Make sure that you use a key command you choose doesn't conflict with another key command. Cmd-shift-3 by default will save a picture to a file. I don't use that option a lot so I have disabled it by unchecking the box next to it.

Your new shortcut is now set up.