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S/(}3 L-174940 Second Edition Use any model of iMac, from the original to the new iMac DV Take advantage of the latest iMac features, including Mac OS 9 and Sherlock 2 Learn to use the software bundled Nith your iMac, including AppleWorks, Desktop, and ~»aim luicken Deluxe odd Stauffer OSBORNE B What You'll Do In This Book CHAPTER • Set u ~our IM ac and turn it on and off properly 1 • Get on the Internet and myour e-mail for the first time 2 • Manage ~our files with the Finder 3_ ____ 4_ • • Use Sherlock or Sherlock 2 to search the Internet 6 • 8 • readsheet module ~----------~-- 11 ublication 12 • Mana e ~our accounts, bud ets, and investment with Quicken:..___ _ ____ --=13_ • Edit your own digital movies with an iMac OV and I Movie 15 • Play the ames included with iMac and configure our am e controllers 16 • Manage your schedule ToDos and contacts with Palm Deskto 17__ • Retrieve send and manage our e-mail automatically 18 • Bookmark your favorite Web sites and browse offline • Use flo J:IY disk ima es even thou h iMac doesn't have a flo QY_dri~ 20 • Connect our iMac for customized or high-speed Internet access • Ad'ust ~ur iMac's screen sound, and ene!ID':saving settings • Set individual accounts for our iMac's different users • Add external disks RAM, or an AirPort wireless networkingsard • Network our IMac to other Macs or PCs for file transfers our iMac freezes or ex erlences a bomb :....:.:..!= J-=-: • 1 Second Edition Todd Stauffer Osborne McGraw-Hill Berkeley New York St. Louis San Francisco Auckland Bogot4 Hamburg London Madrid Mexico City Milan Montreal New Delhi Panama City Paris S~o Paulo Singapore Sydney Tokyo Toronto Osborne/McGraw-Hill 2600 Tenth Street Berkeley, California 94710 U.S.A. For information on translations or book distributors outside the U.S.A., or to arrange bulk purchase discounts for sales promotions, premiums, or fund-raisers, please contact Osborne/McGraw-Hill at the above address. How to Do Everything with Your iMac, Second Edition Copyright © 2000 by The McGraw-Hill Companies. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Except as permitted under the Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher, with the exception that the program listings may be entered, stored, and executed in a computer system, but they may not be reproduced for publication. 1234567890 AGM AGM 019876543210 ISBN 0-07-212416-4 Publisher: Brandon A. Nordin Associate Publisher and Editor-in-Chief: Scott Rogers Acquisitions Editor: Jane K. Brownlow Project Editor: Madhu Prasher Acquisitions Coordinator: Tara Davis Technical Editor: John Rizzo Copy Editors: Claire Splan and Barbara Brodnitz Proofreader: Paul Tyler Indexer: Claire Splan Computer Designers: E. A. Pauw, Dick Schwartz, and Gary Corrigan Dlustrators: Beth Young and Robert Hansen Series Design: Peter Hancik Cover Design: Dodie Shoemaker Mac® and PowerBook® are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc., registered in the United States and other countries. iMac ™ is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. iMac photo courtesy of Apple Computer, Inc., and Mark Laita, photographer This book was composed with Corel VENTURA™ Publisher. lnfonnation has been obtained by Osborne/McGraw-Hill from sources believed to be reliable. However, because of the possibility of human or mechanical error by our sources, Osborne/McGraw-Hill, or others, Osborne/McGraw-Hill does not guarantee the accuracy, adequacy, or completeness of any infonnation and is not responsible for any errors or omissions or the results obtained from use of such information. For Daisy T., because I promised not to dedicate books to people. About the Author ... Todd Stauffer is the author or co-author of more than 20 books on computing, including the first edition of How to Do Everything with Your iMac and How to Do Everything with Your iBook. He's a contributing editor for MacCentral.com and has written for a number of publications, including MacTech, MacAddict, and CMP Online. He's the publisher ofMac-Upgrade.com as well as the writer and co-host of the Emmy-winning television program, "Disk Doctors." About the Reviewer ... John Rizzo is the author of several books about Macs, a computer magazine columnist, a consultant, and the founder of the MacWindows.com Web site. He was an editor at Mac User magazine and a columnist for Mac Week magazine. Contents Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi PART I Get Started CHAPTER 1 Welcome to iMac ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 3 How to... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 What Makes iMac Different and Cool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 What Is the Internet? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 iMac Is Still a Mac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 iMac Uses a New Type of Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 iMac: A Quick Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Different iMac Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 From the Front . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 From the Side . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Before You Set Up iMac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Get a Surge Protector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Keep Glare to a Minimum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Don't Forget the Ergonomics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Set Up iMac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Get Online with the Assistants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 The Mac OS Setup Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 The Internet Setup Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 iMac: On, Off, Sleep, Info . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Which Mac OS Do You Have? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Turn Off iMac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Restart iMac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Reset Your iMac When Frozen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 CHAPTER 2 Get Acquainted with iMac •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 27 How to .............................................. . 28 What Is the Desktop? ........................................ . 29 What's an Icon? ...................................... . 29 What's a Menu? ...................................... . 30 What's a Window? ................................... . 31 v VI How to Do Everything with Your iMac Using the Mouse and Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Click with the Mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Special Keyboard Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 The Mouse and Keyboard Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Work with Icons and Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 In Depth with Icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Rename Icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Open Up Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Hard Disks, CD-ROMs, DVDs, and Peripherals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Storage vs. Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 The Hard Disk Icon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 The Trash Icon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 CDs and DVDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Removable Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Printer Icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Change Settings with the Control Strip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Turn on Control Strip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Get a Quick Start on the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Sign On to Your ISP (Modem Connections) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Browse the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Get Your Mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Sign Off of Your ISP (Modem Connections) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 CHAPTER3 Manage Your Flles with the Finder •••••••••••••.••••••••••••••••• 53 How to... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Finder 101: Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Dig Deep into Finder Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 55 Move Icons to Finder Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Select Items in the Finder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Get Information from Finder Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Finder 201: Create Folders, Copy Files, and Build Aliases . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Create a New Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Create a Duplicate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Create an Alias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Find the Alias, s Original . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 64 Fix an Alias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Finder 301: Delete Icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Toss Icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Retrieve Items from the Trash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Empty the Trash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Finder 401: Get Information on Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Finder Grad School: Get Organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Organize Documents Using Aliases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Use Labels to Organize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Change How Folders Are Displayed in the Finder . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Contents VII CHAPTER4 Pull Down the Apple Menu ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••.•••••• 75 How to... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 What Is the Apple Menu? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Items on the Apple Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Desk Accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Control Panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Aliases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Use the Recent Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Select a Recent Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Customize the Recent Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Create and Use Favorites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Create a Favorite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Use a Favorite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Put Your Own Aliases on the Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 The Automatic Way . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 The Manual Way . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Shuffle the Order of Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 CHAPTER 5 Work with Applications and the Applications Menu • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 89 How to... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 What Are Applications? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Start Up Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Start-Up Trouble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Create a New Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Open a Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Save Your Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Basic Application Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Selecting and Select All . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Cut, Copy, and Paste . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Undo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Quit the Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Other Interface Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Buttons, Check Boxes, and Sliders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Toolbars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 The About Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Multitasking: Use More Than One Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 The Application Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Switch Between Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Hide and Show Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 CHAPTERS Search for Things • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 107 How to... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 You Can Find Anything with iMac . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Meet Sherlock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Save Searches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 ... VIII How to Do Everything with Your iMac Search for Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ill The Basic Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ill The Advanced Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Custom Searches in Sherlock 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Find by Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Index Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Perform the Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Search the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Start the Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Sherlock 2's Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Update Your Search Sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Add New Search Sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 CHAPTER7 Get Some Help • • • . . . • • . • • • . • . • • • • . • • • . • • • . • • . . • • • • . . • • . • . • . • 125 How to... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 The Help Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 Apple Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 Browse for Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 Search for Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 The Help Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 Apple Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 Help by Topic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Index and Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Balloon Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 Other Types of Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 The Apple Works (QuickHelp) Help System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Read Me Files and PDFs . . .. . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 136 PART II Get Your Work Done CHAPTERS Create Printed Documents 141 How to... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 Write with Your iMac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Apple Works vs. The Other Guys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 Begin Your Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 Fonts, Styles, and Sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 Save Often . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 Format Your Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Format Paragraphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Insert Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 Format the Whole Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Format the Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Tabs and the Ruler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 Spell, Find, Change, and Count . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 Check Spelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 Find and Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

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