Mac Format The Alt Mac Manual

from Everything you wish the official manual had told you from the basics of using your Mac to expert tips The Alternative Mac Manual <!! Rod Lawton The Alternative Mac Manual 3 First published in the UK by Future Publishing Limited, 30 Monmouth Street, Bath, Avon BA1 2BW. Telephone 01225 442244 Contents Fax 01225 446019 Copyright © 1996 Future Publishing Limited. Introduction 1 All rights reserved. All copyrights and trademarks recognised. 1: Macintosh basics 9 What's an Operating System? * 10 Printed and bound in the UK by Clays Limited, St. Ives pic. Using your mouse 12 The menu bar l2 This book is distributed free with Macformat 33, January 1996, on the A closer look at menu options 14 condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, sold, Shutting down 15 hired out or otherwise distributed without the publisher's prior Talk to me! I5 consent, in any form, binding or cover other than that in which it is The Desktop 15 published. No part of this work may be copied, digitised, stored in a Looking through windows 19 retrieval system, uploaded on to an on-line system or sever, Launching an application 22 photographed or even used in the construction of a papier-mache Applications and documents 23 mediaeval village without the publisher's prior consent. So don't even think about it. 2: Memory, hard disks and Macintosh models 25 Your Mac's processor 27 Macformat, Britain's best-selling Macintosh magazine, is published Mac-spotting 2^ every four weeks, and brings you the latest Mac-related news, practical how-tos, and authoritative reviews of interesting and 3: Files, folders and drives 31 affordable new products. Macformat is available every issue with a 'Files' and 'documents' 32 cover-mounted CD-ROM or high-density floppy disk. Moving things around 32 How do you create a new folder? 34 Macformat will help you get more out of your Macintosh, whatever What's in a name? …