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LEARNING Contents Preface How to Use This Book xv Chapter 11 Organizing Your Files 121 Part I Learning Macintosh 1 Chapter 12 Adapting the Macintosh to Your Own Use 133 REFERENCE Chapter 1 Turning the Macintosh On and Off 3 Chapter 13 Printing 157 Chapter 2 Working on the Desktop 9 Chapter 14 Using Your Macintosh on a Network 173 Chapter 3 Working With Disks 25 Chapter 15 Enhancing Your Macintosh System 205 Chapter 4 Creating a Document 37 Chapter 16 Care and Maintenance 221 TROUBLESHOOTING Chapter 5 Changing a Document 45 Appendix A Keyboard and Character Sets 229 Chapter 6 Organizing Your Work 55 Appendix B Exchanging Disks and Files With MS-DOS Computers 232 Chapter 7 Learning More About Your Macintosh 69 Appendix C Where to Get More Information About Part II Macintosh Reference 75 Your Macintosh 237 Chapter 8 Setting Up Your Macintosh System 77 Glossary 239 Chapter 9 Using Power Efficiently 87 Troubleshooting 253 INDEX Chapter 10 Using Hard Disks and Floppy Disks 109 Index 265 iii Radio and television interference xiv Open an icon 15 Look at the contents of a window 16 Preface How to Use This Book xv Make a window the active window 16 Make a window larger or smaller 17 Part I Learning Macintosh 1 Move the hidden contents of a window into view 18 Close a window 20 Chapter 1 Turning the Macintosh On and Off 3 Move a window 20 Turn your computer on 4 What’s on the desktop? 22 When you turn on your computer 6 Using the keyboard 24 Turn your computer off 7 If your computer seems to stop working 8 Chapter 3 Working With Disks 25 Insert a floppy disk 26 Chapter 2 Working on the Desktop 9 Floppy disks and hard disks 27 Use the trackball 10 Initialize a disk 28 Point 10 Copy the contents of a disk 29 Click 11 Taking care of floppy disks 30 Press 11 Take a floppy disk out of its drive 31 Drag 12 Protect the contents of a disk 32 Using the trackball comfortably 13 Use the Trash 33 Choose a command 14 On your own: Install your programs 34 Giving orders to your Macintosh 14 Throw away extra System Folders 36 iv Contents LEARNING Chapter 4 Creating a Document 37 Chapter 6 Organizing Your Work 55 Open a program 38 Duplicate a document 56 Create a document 39 Change the name of an icon 58 Save your work 39 Save a different version of a document 60 Switch programs 40 Save?—or Save As? 61 Two types of programs 43 Open a document while its program is active 62 Close a document 43 Organize icons in a folder 62 REFERENCE Opening and closing documents and programs 44 What’s an alias? 64 Use an alias 64 Chapter 5 Changing a Document 45 Create a stationery pad 66 Open a document 46 Change a document 46 Chapter 7 Learning More About Your Macintosh 69 Save your work so far 49 Use Balloon Help 70 TROUBLESHOOTING Taking a shortcut 49 Use Part II of this book 72 Make more changes 50 What’s not in Part II 72 Quit a program 53 Where to find information 73 Make a backup copy of a document 53 What next? 73 INDEX Contents v Part II Macintosh Reference 75 Chapter 9 Using Power Efficiently 87 Turning on the computer 87 Chapter 8 Setting Up Your Macintosh System 77 Turning on the computer for the first time 87 Setting up your computer hardware 77 Turning on the computer to resume your work 88 Working comfortably 78 Restarting a computer that’s already on 89 Installing, reinstalling, or updating your system software 79 Restarting a computer that can’t be turned on normally 89 Before you install 79 Turning off the computer 91 Installing system software 80 Putting the computer to sleep 91 Installing customized system software 81 Sleep shortcuts from the Battery desk accessory 92 Starting up with a floppy disk 82 Shutting the computer down 92 Installing your programs 83 Monitoring the battery charge level 93 Installing programs without a floppy disk drive 83 Opening the Battery desk accessory 93 Checking for computer viruses 84 Responding to low-power messages 94 Working with several programs at a time 85 Recharging the battery 95 Finding out what programs are open 85 Using the power adapter 95 Switching programs 85 Using an external recharger 96 Hiding and showing windows on the desktop 85 Removing or replacing the battery 98 Changing the amount of memory a program uses 86 Maximizing battery life 99 Replacing backup batteries 99 vi Contents LEARNING Conserving power 101 Chapter 10 Using Hard Disks and Floppy Disks 109 Suggested methods of maximizing battery use time 101 Preparing a new disk for use 109 Adjusting system rest 102 Initializing a hard disk 110 Adjusting system sleep 103 Initializing a floppy disk 111 Adjusting hard disk sleep 104 Erasing a floppy disk 112 Using Power Saver 105 Designating a startup disk 113 Using a RAM disk 105 Scanning order for startup disks 113 REFERENCE Creating a RAM disk 106 Protecting the information on a disk 114 Erasing a RAM disk 107 Locking a floppy disk 114 Resizing or removing a RAM disk 107 Locking a file 114 Making a RAM disk the startup disk 108 Backing up your files 115 If you can’t save files on a floppy disk 115 Ejecting a disk 116 TROUBLESHOOTING If you can’t eject a floppy disk 116 Caring for disks 117 Hard disk precautions 117 Testing and repairing disks 117 If a hard disk icon doesn’t appear 117 Using Disk First Aid 118 Testing a hard disk 120 INDEX Contents vii Chapter 11 Organizing Your Files 121 Chapter 12 Adapting the Macintosh Straightening up your files 121 to Your Own Use 133 Using folders to organize your files 122 Specifying which items you want opened at startup 134 Creating and naming folders 122 Putting an item in the Apple menu 134 Filing documents when you save them 123 Putting files in the System Folder 134 Making items easier to find 124 Removing files from the System Folder 135 Using an alias 124 Changing the items in the Label menu 136 Creating an alias 124 Setting the time and date 136 Uses of aliases 124 Setting a time for the Alarm Clock to go off 137 Locating the original of an alias 125 Turning the alarm off 138 Installing an item in the Apple menu 125 Adjusting the way the trackball works 139 Moving an item to the desktop 125 Adjusting the