The little Mac book

110 Pages·1990·18.014 MB·English

by  Williams, Robin

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MAC BOOK
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PEACHPIT PRESS
The
Little Mac
Book
The
Little Mac
Book
Robin Williams
Peachp it Press
Berkeley, California
The LiHie Mac Book
© 1990 by Robin Williams
(previously published under the title Macintosh Basics; il n irifomwl
guide to using the Mac by Performance Enhancemem Products)
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ISBN 0-938151-21-5
098765432 1
Printed and bound in Ll1c United States of America
To my mother, Patricia Williams,
who made it possible,
and to my father, Gerald Williams,
who would have been proud.
I must thank Brad Mager for insisting that- · Acknowledgments
as an instructor of graphic design- ·
I not be computer-illiterate, thus leading me
into the exciting new field of electronic design;
Alex Drake, for so patiently answering
my interminable questions over the past few years;
Marilyn Flowers, Shirley Davis, and particularly ·
Richard Abrahams and Roger Karraker, ·
for their warm support and encouragement;
all my students, for whom this was originally prepared;
and Beverly Scherf and Mary Boston,
for taking care of so many of the details of life.
"In this work, when it shall be found that much
is omitted, let it not be forgotten that much likewise
is performed."
-Dr. Samuelj ohnson, upon comjJletion ofh is dictionary
1755
1 Ks, Megs, and Disks ••••.•.••.••••.••..••.•••.••.... 5
Technical Magic; Bits; Bytes; Kilobytes;
Floppy Disks; Caring for Floppy Disks; Disk
Capacity; Initializing a New Disk; Locking a
Disk; Hard Disks; Megabytes; Backup Disks;
Rule No.3
2 Starting Up .................••....•......•.............•. 9
Turning It On; System Folder; The System
and The Finder; Inserting a Disk; System and
Software Versions; Only One System Per
Computer!
3 The Desktop ••••••••••••••..••••.••..••..•...••.•.•••.. 11
The Desktop or Finder; Organizing
Your Desktop
4 The Mouse •.••...•.......•.•••••• •••••••••••••••••••••• 13
Single Click; Double Click; Press; Press-and
Drag; The Pointer; Cleaning the Mouse
5 The Menu .•.••••••.••.•••.......•.••.•.•............•... 1 s
Pull-Down Menus; Choosing a Menu Item;
Pop-Out Menus; Grey vs. Black Commands;
Keyboard Command Shortcuts; Ellipses and
Dialog Boxes
6 Important Keys •••••.•.••••••••..••••.•••••••••.••... 17
The Keyboard; Command Key; Option Key;
Backspace or Delete Key; Tilde Key; Escape
Key; Control Key; Return Key; Enter Key;
Spacebar; Shift Key; Caps Lock
7 Windows .••••••••.••••••••••....••••.•..•.....•........ 19
I
Title Bar (Moving the Window); Active
Window; To Make the Window Active;
Grey Icons; Size Box; Zoom Box; Scroll Bars;
Grey Scroll Bar; White Scroll Bar; Scroll
Arrows; Scroll Box; Clicking in the Scroll Bar;
Information Bar; Close Box; Viewing the
Window; Clean Up Window; Close All the
Windows; Print the Window; Print All the
Windows on the Screen
CONTENTS
8 Icons •.•••••••••.•.•••••••••.•.••••••••••••••.•••...••••..• 25
Disk; Folder; System; Printer; Application or
Software; Document; Open (Grey); High
lighted (Black); Trash Can (Put In; Take Out;
Put Away; Empty); Screen Dump; Get Info;
Locking the File; Moving Icons, Renaming
Icons; Undo Icon arne Change
9 Folders ...••••.•..•••.•....•...•.........•.••.•••..•....• 31
Creating a New Folder; Naming the
New Folder; Changing the Name; Putting
Something Inside; Opening; Removing
Something; Organizing Your Disk Using
Folders; Creating Project-Specific Folders
10 Copying/Selecting Files ..........•.••.•.••.•..... 35
Why Copy?; Copying; Copying More Than
One File at a Time; Selecting More Than
One File at a Time; Shift-Clicking to Select
More Than One File; Shift-Click to Deselect;
Duplicate/Copy File on Same Disk
11 Opening Applications or Documents .••••.. 37
What is an Application?; Opening an
Application; Opening a Document from
the Desktop; New vs. Open; An "Open"
Dialog Box
12 Typing ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 39
The 1-Beam; The Insertion Point; Beginning to
Type; Backspace/Delete; Highlighting Text;
When to Use the Return Key (Word Wrap;
Hard Returns; Double Spaces; Removing a
Return); Blank Space; Centering Text;
Changing Fonts (Typefaces); Rule No.2;
Changing Style; Changing Styles Mid-Stream
Without Using the Menu; Changing Type Size;
Alignment; Cut, Copy, and the Clipboard; Cut;
Copy; Paste; Backspace/Delete or Clear and
the Clipboard; Undo; Commands-Z, X, C, V;
Accessing Special Characters (Key Caps); List
of Special Characters; Just-For-Fun Characters;
Using Accent Marks; List of Accent Marks;
One Space After Periods
CONTENTS
13 Fonts .•........•.•••••.••.•...•••.•.•..•.•••..••.••••••••. 49
Interesting Information (Printers; Traditional
Fonts; Name Associations; Other Installed
Fonts); Important Information; Type Size;
Bit-mapped vs. PostScript Fonts; Screen
Fonts & Printer Fonts; Font Examples on
the ImageW riter and LaserWriter Printers;
Font Size Examples
14 Font/DA Mover .•..•.••.••.•••.•••••••.••.••••.•••.•. 59
Where Fonts Reside; Using the Font/DA
Mover; Copying/Removing Desk Accessories;
A Note About Families, Fonts, and Styles;
A Note About Downloadable Fonts
15 Saving ..•............•................................... 63
RAM: Random Access Memory; Rule #I: Save
Often; Save As ... vs. Save; "Save As ..." Dialog
Box; Making Several Versions; Reverting to
the Last-Saved Version
16 Printing •......••.•••••••••.••••••.•••••••••...••••.••.•. 67
Printers; Preparing to Print; Chooser; Print
Dialog Boxes (Quality; Orientation; Pages: All
or From/To; 50% Reduction; Tall Adjusted;
Computer Paper); Save LaserWriter Toner &
Paper; Align ImageW riter Pin-Fed Paper
17 Closing/QuiHing ...•..•....••••••.•.......•......... 71
Closing a Document; Quitting an Application;
Shutting Down
1 8 Eiecting Disks ••.•••.••.••.•••••.•••••.••.•.••.••••..•. 73
Shutting Down; From the Menu or the Key
board Shortcut; Through the Trash; Through
Dialog Boxes; More Keyboard Shortcuts; The
Mouse Trick; The PaperClip Trick
19 Shutting Down •....•..•....•.....•....••.••••.•••.•.. 75
Good Housekeeping
20 Desk Accessories •••..•••.••......•..•.•.••.•••••.••• 77
Alarm Clock; Calculator; Chooser; Control
Panel (Desktop Pattern; Clock & Calendar;
Keyboard; Sound; Mouse); Find File; Key Caps;
Note Pad; Scrapbook