User`s guide

Use Windows on Your Mac

Customize the Keyboard

Both Mac OS X and Windows provide extensive keyboard shortcuts. For example, in Mac OS X

you can hold down the Command key and press Q (Command-Q) to quit the current application.

By default, Parallels Desktop maps common Mac OS X keyboard shortcut key combinations to the

equivalent Windows key combinations. That way if you're used to, for example, pressing

Command-C to copy text in Mac OS X, you don't have to switch to the Windows equivalent,

Control-C.

You can also use and customize keyboard shortcuts for switching between Coherence, Full

Screen, and Window view modes, and for showing and hiding Parallels Desktop.

Customize Keyboard Shortcuts

1 Do one of the following:

• Option-click (Alt-click) the Parallels icon

in the menu bar and choose Preferences.

• If the Parallels Desktop menu bar is visible at the top of the screen, choose Parallels

Desktop > Preferences.

2 Click Keyboard.

3 If necessary, click the lock icon and enter an administrator password.