Letâs assume that you spend just 10 hours a week on writing your book, and that it takes you a total of 8 months to finish it. Thatâs 320 hours you have invested in writing this book. Assuming you get a $5,000 advance, that means your hourly rate for writing the book was $15.63.
Use the pop-up menu next to the Option and Command keys to select the action you wish the modifier keys to perform. In this example, you want the Option key (the Alt key on a Windows keyboard) to execute the Command action, and the Command key (the Windows key on a Windows keyboard) to perform the Option action.
For instance, Microsoft differentiates keyboard shortcuts from hotkeys (mnemonics on Windows) whereby the former consists of a specific key combination used to trigger an action, and the latter represents a designated letter in a menu command or toolbar button that when pressed together with the Alt key, activates such commandâwhereas a hotkey on Windows is a system wide shortcut that is always available in all contexts as long as the program responsible for it is running and not ...