Introduction
Introduction WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR There’s no question that you’ll get some good out of this WHY WE WROTE THIS BOOK book no matter how much of a Mac expert you are. DP: Everybody who’s ever worked Heck, even if you throw away the book, the accompany- with a Mac already knows that you ing 600 MB of spectacular software will make you discard a file by moving its icon to mighty glad you picked it up. the Trash can, that you select text by dragging across it, and that you end But we may as well admit that this book completely the day by choosing Shut Down skips over the basics of using a Macintosh. If you don’t from the Special menu.The world already know how to point and click, open windows, doesn’t need another book to define insert a disk, use a menu, and open a control panel, you scroll bar. should take a moment to play with the animated pro- JS: So when we started writing gram called either Mouse Practice or Macintosh Basics this book, we worked from one that came with your Mac. Read a manual. Read Macs For simple, overarching concept: Under Dummies, a really good beginner’s book from IDG no circumstances would we define Books (written by one of your present authors). Do scroll bar. whatever you have to do. DP: Instead, we decided to tell As a matter of fact, here are the terms we’re going to secrets: secrets about how a Mac really be tossing around without any definition: works, secrets that software program- Ô-key, Ú menu, backup copy, click, control panel, mers buried in programs but forgot to cursor, Delete key, desktop, double-click, File menu, tell the manual writer, secrets that floppy disk, folder, font, hard drive, icon, K (kilobyte), answer some of the most frequently keyboard, launch a program, MB (megabyte), menu, asked (and seldom answered) quest- ions about Macintosh computing, menu command, monitor, mouse, numeric keypad, secrets such as how to recover a file Option key, point, quit a program, Return key, spacebar, after you’ve dragged it to the Trash — scroll bar, System 7, title bar (of a window), Trash.
[Show full text]