Intermediate Mac

INTERMEDIATE MAC Customizing the Dock The Dock is a shortcut menu for your Applications. To Keyboard Shortcuts add something to the Dock, simply drag an application from Finder to the Dock and let go. To remove Command-A Select All something from the Dock, left click and drag it to the Command-B Bold Trash Bin. The Dock can also be customized, including Command-C Copy the size, location (top, right, or left), whether it is al- ways visible, and more in System Preferences which Command-F Find we’ll cover in a little. Command-I Italicize Force Quit Command-M Minimize Force Quit is like Windows’ Task Manager, and will Command-N New window allow you to close an unresponsive program. After Command-O Open selected item selecting Force Quit from the Apple Menu, select the Command-P Print program you would like to stop and click “Force Quit.” Command-Q Quit Command-S Save Command-U Underline Command-V Paste Command-X Cut Command-Z Undo Shift-Command-N Create a new folder Photos Shift-Command-O Open the Documents Photos is the Mac program that stores, Option-Command-D Show or hide the Dock organizes, and edit your photos! All the photos are stored in the Photos Library Windows Key = Command file. Drag photos from a storage device and drop Alt = Option them into the Photos app! Or import the photos by connecting your phone to your Mac. Photos can be edited, organized into albums, made into a book and other projects, and ordered for prints! 125 S. Prospect Avenue, Elmhurst, IL 60126 (630) 279-8696 ● elmhurstpubliclibrary.org Learn Everyday Essentials INTERMEDIATE MAC iWork QuickTime iWork is Apple’s version of Microsoft Word, Excel, QuickTime is a multimedia program and PowerPoint. iWork includes Pages, Numbers, developed by Apple. QuickTime does and Keynote. more than playing music and videos. QuickTime can be used to record audio and video, and record a Installing Updates screen recording. To begin a new recording, select Application and Operating System “File” then “New Recording…” Options to trim or updates are installed using the App combine files are located in the “Edit” menu. Store Application. After opening the App Store, select “Updates.” If you are connected to the internet, it will automatically check for new updates Preview and allow you to chose what updates to install. Preview is the image and PDF viewer Some Application updates might require signing for Mac’s operating system. It can into your Apple ID. Apple usually offers Operating open a variety of files, listed below. System Upgrades for free. Preview offers basic editing for images. It can also re-arrange and sort pages of a PDF, including add- System Preferences ing and removing pages. System Preferences is comparable Preview can open the following file types: to the Control Panel on a Windows AI—Adobe Illustrator OpenEXR PC. We will discuss some, but not Artwork PDF all, of the System Preferences features. CR2– Raw image by Canon cameras PICT– QuickDraw images DAE– Collada 3D PNG Dictation DNG– Digital Negatives PPT– PowerPoint The Dictation feature converts your spoken words EPS– Encapsulated PS– Adobe PostScript PostScript PSD– Adobe Photoshop into text. To set up Dictation, select “Keyboard” FAX– Faxes QTIF– QuickTime images from System Preferences. Click the “Dictation” tab, FPX– FlashPix RAW– Raw images and select “On.” Enhanced Dictation allows the user GIF– Graphics SGI—Silicon Graphics to dictate when not connected to the internet. The Interchange Format Images default shortcut key for Dictation is Fn-Fn (press Fn HDR– High Dynamic STL– STereoLithography Range Images 3D Format twice). To begin Dictation, use the shortcut key or JPEG TGA—TARGA images select “Start Dictation” from “Edit” in the Application OBJ– Wavefront TIFF Menu. 125 S. Prospect Avenue, Elmhurst, IL 60126 (630) 279-8696 ● elmhurstpubliclibrary.org Learn Everyday Essentials .

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