Mastering your Macintosh : a user’s guide to Apple’s Macintosh computer

267 Pages·1984·45.866 MB·English

by  Skyvington, William

MASTERING YOUR MACINTOSH
A User's Guide to Apple's Macintosh Computer
MASTERING YOUR MACINTOSH
A User's Guide to Apple's Macintosh Computer
William Skyvington
-~Halelnle!Tl-.al
Englewood Cliffs, N.J. London New Delhi Rio de janeiro
Singapore Sydney Tokyo Toronto Wellington
l11e cover photograph has been kindly supplied by William Skyving10n.
Apple, the Apple logo, Usa, MacDraw, Macl'aint, MacProject, MacTcrminal and IV!acWrite are
trademarks of Apple Computer inc. Macintosh is a trademark licensed to Apple Computer Inc.
Chart, Microsoft and Multiplan arc trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
Photographs and picture of Japanese girl repr<xluced by pcnni.~sion of Apple Computer Inc.
Ubrary of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Skyvington. William.
Mastering your 1VL1cintosh.
Includes index.
1. 1viacintosh (Computer) I. Title
QA76.R.M3SS9 19R4 001.64 H4-16071
ISBN 0·13·S S9S27 ·4 ( pbk.)
British Ubrary Cataloging in Publication Data
Skyvington, William
Mastering your 1v!ai ntosh
I. Macintosh (Computer)
I. Title
001.64'04 QA76.8.M3
ISBN 0-13·559527·4
e 1984 by William Skyvington
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For my friends at Apple France,
members of the Usa/Macintosh team,
who enabled me to ·write this book:
Bruno Rives
Miriam Souza
Neil Minkley
Christophe Droulers
Alain Andrieux
Christine Thevenot
A mountain in labor cried so loud
that everyone, hearing the noise,
ran up expecting that she would
surely give birth to
a city bigger than Paris;
she brought forth a mouse.
-Jean de Ia Fontaine, Fables\1.10
"f11cre are rwo types of Macintosh keyboard: this book follows the style of the
American version, which uses words w denote the keys.
Readers who are using the 'International' style of Macintosh keyboard will
already be aware that the symbols on their keyboard indicate the following:
- I
Tab
D
Caps Lock
D
Shift
Option
~
Backspace
Return
Enter
Command
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Contents
INTRODUCTION 1
Image of a machine 5
Peripheral dcdo:s 6
1 THE MOUSE CONCEPT 8
l11e lllOLISl' button 9
Yocabula1y 10
Menus II
2 THE WINDOW CONCEPT 18
Summary 20
Icons 20
Multiple windows 23
Window manipulations 27
Desk accessories 31
3 THE CUT & PASTE CONCEPT 36
The Clipboard 36
11K· \lote l'acl 43
The Scrapbook 1 I
4 THE HOUSEKEEPING CONCEPT 61
Folders 61
Oisk·to·disk tmnsfcrs 73
Copyin~ documents on the same disk 77
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CONTENTS
X
5 "MacWrite" -WORD PROCESSING R2
Printing using the lmagcwritcr H9
Fonnar modifk~ttions 92
h1SL't1ions and deletions 97
l'n.·t~· print IO'i
Hukrship IOH
Find it and change it I 1.1
6 "MacPaint" -IMAGE PROCESSING 119
Elct1ronic painting 119
Huhhcr handing 12'i
Frel'hand drawing 129
Writell'aint relationships 1-19
Screen dumps and snapslHl iS I 'i I
7 "MacDraw" -GRAPH PROCESSING 153
SetS<lf<>hjct1s l'i·t
Demonstmtion I 'i6
Sn:tph<x>k ~•,:tpping 16'i
8 "Multiplan" -ELECfRONIC WORKSHEET 174
ivtanipulating the worksheet 17-i
Gtlcubrions 17H
Mathematic functions IH-i
Other funnions I H6
Dcmon~1tWion IH6
9 "Chart" -BUSINESS GRAPHICS 202
Dcmonsu:ttion 203
10 "MacProject"- PROJECT PlANNING 213
Demon~1mtion 213
0 ll1dusions on Macl'roje<:t 226
EPILOG 227
CONTENTS xi
Appendix A SOFIWA RE DEVEWPMENT USING USA 228
Development context 229
Pascal particularities 230
QuickDraw 231
Toolbox 233
~·lacintosh operating ~ystem 234
The concept of soft\vare components 235
Appendix B SOFIWA RE DEVEWPMENT USING
MACINTOSH 236
Demon~1rmion 236
Une-by line description of the demonstf"dtion program 246
Super Basic 24R
INDEX 251