Macintosh Basics

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Macintosh Basics

• Mrs. Shea
• H209

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The Dock

• Contains icons for
• Running applications
• Documents that are open
• Anything that is minimized
• Whatever is dragged there
• Mouse-over shows name/menus
• Clicking -- Opens the application/document
• Anything open has small triangle underneath icon

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Top menu toolbar

• Choices will change depending on active
  application (but will see standard options like
  Application name, File, Edit, Window, Help)
• Leftmost menu (Apple menu) always available
• Apple menu force quit, restart, shut down, log
  out

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Finder

• Primary navigation tool (similar to Windows
  Explorer)
• Ways to bring up new Finder window
• Click on Dock icon
• File -gt New Finder Window
• apple-N
• When other applications are running click on
  desktop to activate Finder

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Examining Finder Window

• Icons on upper left
• Red (x) quit
• Yellow (-) minimize move to Dock
• Green () zoom (toggle)
• Button on upper right
• Toolbar hide/show
• Lower right corner resize
• Title bar contains name of document.
• To move window, click and drag on title bar

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Finder Tool Bar

• Back/Forward folder navigation
• View how you want folder contents displayed
• Boxes icons
• Lines details (date modified, type, size)
• Columns hierarchy display
• Computer root directory
• Home your user folder
• Applications available applications/programs

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Finder Tool Bar (cont.)

• Favorites Can specify files, folder, etc for
  quick access. (Similar to bookmark)
• To add a folder/file to favorites
• (Finder) File -gt Add to Favorites.
• If in an application -- Can specify when
  saving/opening a file
• Note that the title bar shows your current folder

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File Management

• To move between folders
• Double click on folder name
• To create a folder
• (Finder) File -gt New Folder
• To rename a folder
• Single click on folder name

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File Management (cont.)

• Moving a file between folders
• Click and drag

• Copy a file between folders (3 ways)

• Select file. Edit gt Copy. Edit gt Paste
• shtcut (apple-C) (apple-V)

• Ctrl-click file. (Menu appears to copy)

• Select file. Hold down Option key while dragging
  (release mouse before Option)

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File Management (cont.)

• Making a copy of a file within same folder
• Can use any of previous methods
• Ctrl-click on file and choose Duplicate

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Storing your files

• On student area of Server H (daily)
• (Finder) Go gt Connect to Server
• Address smb//serverh/students
• CD-R (periodically eg, quarterly)

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PC and Mac Equivalents