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reveals the Search field at the top of the menu and the Mac Help and New to Mac items. Choosing Mac Help opens the Mac Help window, as shown in Figure 1-5; choosing New to Mac launches Safari and displays a tour of macOS Sierra.
FIGURE 1-5: Mac Help is nothing if not helpful.
Though the keyboard shortcut for Help no long appears on the Help menu, the same shortcut as always, Shift+
You can browse Help by clicking a topic in the Table of Contents and then clicking a subtopic. If you don’t see the Table of Contents, click the Table of Contents button as shown in Figure 1-5.
To search Mac Help, simply type a word or phrase in either Search field – the one in the Help menu itself or the one near the top of the Help window on the right side – and then press Return. In a few seconds, your Mac provides you one or more articles to read, which (theoretically) are related to your question. Usually. If you type menus and press Return, for example, you get ten results, as shown in Figure 1-6.
FIGURE 1-6: You have questions? Mac Help has answers.
As long as your Mac is connected to the Internet, search results include articles from the Apple online support database.
Furthermore, after you ask a question and Mac Help has grabbed the answer from the Apple website, the answer remains on your hard drive forever. If you ask for it again – even at a later date – your computer won’t have to download it from the Apple website again.
Click Search the Web (near the bottom of Figure 1-6) to launch Safari and perform a web search for the phrase you typed.
1. Type a word or phrase in the Help menu’s Search field.
2. Select any item that has a menu icon to its left (such as the three items with Trash in their names in Figure 1-7.
The automatic visual cue – an arrow – appears, pointing at that command in the appropriate menu.
FIGURE 1-7: If you choose an item with a menu icon, an arrow points to that item in context.
Finally, don’t forget that most apps have their own Help systems, so if you want general help with your Mac, you need to first click the Finder icon in the Dock, click the Desktop, or use the app-switching shortcut
Chapter 2
Desktop and Windows and Menus (Oh My!)
IN THIS CHAPTER
Understanding the Finder
Checking out the parts of a window
Dealing with dealie-boppers in windows
Resizing, moving, and closing windows
Getting comfortable with menu basics
This chapter introduces important features of macOS, starting with the first things you see when you log in: the Finder and its Desktop. After a quick look around the Desktop, you get a look into two of its most useful features: windows and menus.
Windows are (and have always been) an integral part of Mac computing. Windows in the Finder (or, as a PC user would say, “on the Desktop”) show you the contents of the hard drive, optical drive, flash (thumb) drive, network drive, disk image, and folder icons. Windows in applications do many things. The point is that windows are part of what makes your Mac a Mac; knowing how they work – and how to use them – is essential.
Menus are another quintessential part of the Mac experience. The latter part of this chapter starts you out with a few menu basics. As needed, I direct you to other parts of the book for greater detail. So relax and don’t worry. By the end of this chapter, you’ll be ready to work with windows and menus in any application that uses them (and most applications, games excluded, do).
Touring the Finder and Its Desktop
The Finder is the program that creates the Desktop, keeps track of your files and folders, and is always running. Just about everything you do on your Mac begins and ends with the Finder. It’s where you manage files, store documents, launch programs, and much more. If you ever expect to master your Mac, the first step is to master the Finder and Desktop. (The default Sierra Finder and Desktop appear in the preceding chapter, in Figure 1-2).
The Finder is the center of your Mac OS experience, so before I go any further, here’s a quick description of its most prominent features:
❯❯ Desktop: The Desktop is the area behind the windows and the Dock. In macOS 10.12, the default Desktop picture again honors its namesake, showing a portion of the Sierra Nevada mountain range.
It’s also where your hard drive icon (ordinarily) lives, although if you bought a new Mac with Sierra preinstalled, there won’t be any icons on it at all.
The Desktop isn’t a window, yet it acts like one. Like a folder window or disk window, the Desktop can contain icons. But unlike most windows, which require a bit of navigation to get to, the Desktop is always there behind any open windows, making it a great place for icons you use a lot, such as oft-used folders, applications, or documents.
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