Easy Mac OS X Lion - Kate Binder [2]
Dedication
This book is for my amazing husband Don Fluckinger, who is forced to put up with authorial crankiness while I’m trying to meet deadlines, and who still makes me popcorn at night despite it all.
Acknowledgments
Profuse thanks are due to Laura Norman for shepherding me through yet another one. Thanks, too, to the awesome editorial, design, and production people at Que—and especially my favorite tech editor, Paul Sihvonen-Binder—for making it happen once again.
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It’s as Easy as 1-2-3
Each part of this book is made up of a series of short, instructional lessons, designed to help you understand basic information.
Each step is fully illustrated to show you how it looks onscreen
Each task includes a series of quick, easy steps designed to guide you through the procedure.
Items that you select or click in menus, dialog boxes, tabs, and windows are shown in bold.
Tips, notes, and cautions give you a heads-up for any extra information you may need while working through the task.
How to Drag: Point to the starting place or object. Hold down the mouse button (right or left per instructions), move the mouse to the new location, and then release the button.
Click: Click the left mouse button once.
Click & Type: Click once where indicated and begin typing to enter your text or data.
Selection: Highlights the area onscreen discussed in the step or task.
Double-click: Click the left mouse button twice in rapid succession.
Right-click: Click the right mouse button once.
Pointer arrow: Highlights an item on the screen you need to point to or focus on in the step or task.
Introduction to Easy Mac OS X Lion
Mac OS X is like no other: It’s incredibly stable and powerful, and it looks amazingly sleek. But underneath the glitz and sparkle, it has the same old friendly nature that Mac users have enjoyed since 1984. And it’s all about enabling you to do whatever you want to do with your Mac.
With Easy Mac OS X Lion, you’ll learn how to take advantage of powerful and useful Mac OS X features such as the