Robin Williams - Mac OS X 10. 7 Lion: Peachpit Learning Series

Peachpit Learning Series

Robin Williams with John Tollett

Mac OS X Lion: Peachpit Learning Series

ROBIN WILLIAMS WITH JOHN TOLLETT

Copyright 2012 Robin Williams and John Tollett

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Cover design: Charlene Charles-Will
Editor: Nikki McDonald
Proofer: Cathy Lane
Interior layout design: Kim Scott and Robin Williams Production: Robin Williams
Compositors: John Tollett and Robin Williams Index: Robin Williams
Prepress: David Van Ness

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Its great to be M ac users.
Robin and John

Goals

Become familiar and comfortable with the Desktop, Finder, and Home

Get to know the Finder windows and how to use them

Create your own folders

Understand the Dock

Use the Trash basket

Know how and when to use keyboard shortcuts

Learn to watch for tool tips and other visual clues

Know where to go for more information

If you have a Mac running Lion (OS X version 10.7), youre ready to jump right in! In this lesson youll become familiar with using the basic features of your Mac and its Desktop/Finder.

This book assumes you are familiar with how to operate a computerhow to use a mouse or trackpad, select items from menus, distinguish one icon from another, move files and folders and windows around, how and why to save the documents you create, etc. If you are brand new to computers in general, we strongly suggest you use The Little Mac Book, Lion Edition before you read this bookThe Little Mac Book introduces you to using a computer in much more detail and at a much slower pace than this book.

When you turn on your Mac, youll always see your Desktop, shown below. This is also called the Finder, although technically the Finder is the application that runs the Desktop. Whenever you see a direction that tells you to go to the Desktop or to the Finder, this is where you need to go.

As you work on your Mac, you will be using a number of applications to create your documents, but youll often want to go back to the Finder, which is like home base. The name of the active application, the one thats currently open and available to use (including the Finder), will always be displayed in the application menu. Keep an eye on that menu.

To go to the Finder at any time, do one of these things:

Single-click on any blank area of the Desktop.

Single-click on any Finder window (shown below) that you see.

Single-click the Finder icon in the Dock (shown on the opposite page).

Check to make sure the application menu says Finder, as shown circled below.

Below, you see a typical Finder window. This is called a Finder window to distinguish it from similar (but different) windows you will use in your applications. You will access just about everything on your Mac through a Finder window, and you will store everything you create in a Finder window. A window can open into a number of different views, so take a few minutes to read the following pages about the views you might see, and read pages about customizing the windows.

Lion has many features that are much more useful and easier to work with if you use one of the Multi-Touch devices such as a Magic Mouse, a Magic Trackpad, or a built-in trackpad on your laptop with gestures enabled. For instance, in the window shown on the opposite page, you can swipe left or right to display the files. See page .

There are several buttons in the Toolbar of every Finder window.

Red, yellow, and green buttons

Single-click the red button to close the window.

Single-click the yellow button to minimize the window, which sends a tiny icon down into the Dock, on the right side. Try it.

To open that window again, single-click its icon in the Dock.