Command-x does not work for "cut" in macOS Sierra. It is still the shortcut for zoom. Command+option-v doesn't seem to work as well. Is there a universal keyboard shortcut for the cut-and-paste functionality?
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch,Early 2015), macOS Sierra (10.12.2)
Command+X works within any app as you would expect. It will cut a picture or text from an editable document to be pasted somewhere else.
It does not work from the Finder (desktop). If you want to cut/paste in the Finder, you highlight what you want and press Command+C to copy. But when you paste, you use Command+Option+V. Adding the Option key makes the paste a move rather than copy.
Command+X works within any app as you would expect. It will cut a picture or text from an editable document to be pasted somewhere else.
It does not work from the Finder (desktop). If you want to cut/paste in the Finder, you highlight what you want and press Command+C to copy. But when you paste, you use Command+Option+V. Adding the Option key makes the paste a move rather than copy.
Yes, there are universal keyboard shortcuts for undo/cut/copy/paste/clear and have not ever changed since the Macintosh was released over 30 years ago.
You can check the Keyboard System Prefs to see if you have somehow assigned those to something else, but I don't think that is possible.
Do they not work in all applications, or just some?
If you are speaking about Finder, you cannot "cut" a file. You can Copy it, then use the Move shortcut (cmd-opt-v) to move it somewhere else. Dragging seems like it would have been much faster by now.
I guess I should have been more specific. Lol I completely forgot that different apps use different keyboard shortcuts. Thanks to both replies I just remembered how it worked in Finder. I was hoping to learn how to use cut and paste for texts, specifically for word processors or text editors...
Just add on to this post I've tried command-x for both MS Word and a built-in editor for a code camp site and it does not work for either apps...
I tested Office 2011 and 2016. Command+X cuts whatever I have marked. Photoshop, Illustrator and many other apps I did quick tests on all behaved the same way. So with that, I can't say why it's not doing that on your end.
Once I deleted the built-in keyboard shortcut for zoom, I was able to use it for cut and paste for text. Perhaps that should be documented somewhere in the list of keyboard shortcuts for Apple's site as a side note. Something like, "*Will only work if zoom shortcut is disabled." 😉 I wonder if this was removed in an OS update but somehow was not disabled on my end. The world may never know...
Where was the Zoom shortcut? I don't have one in any of the default shortcuts. There isn't even an option for Zoom (window zoom).
Command-x does not work for "cut" in macOS Sierra.
