Essential Mac Keyboard Shortcuts: ⌘-B for Bold

Updated October 8th, 2020.

⌘-B makes selected text bold in many programs, including Mail, Pages, Microsoft Word, and InDesign. It’s one of the standard shortcuts. If the text is already bold it will become “unbold” if you press ⌘-B again.

You should try it.

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