Errata

Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition

Errata for Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition

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The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Date Corrected".

The following errata were submitted by our customers and approved as valid errors by the author or editor.

Color key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update

Version Location Description Submitted By Date submitted Date corrected
Printed
Page 34
Under heading Terminology Differences, 2nd line

that's what you'll find the end of this book
should be
that's what you'll find at the end of this book

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Page 57
Fig. 2-15, top

Start a new para. before "Bottom"

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Page 70
Fig. 2-23 caption

4 lines from end: change "(left)" to "(top)"
last line: change "(right)" to "(below)"

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Page 91
Fig. 3-7

Start a new para. before "Middle"

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Page 100
4th line

Change the cloverleaf symbol to the apple symbol.

(The cloverleaf is a keyboard key; the apple is a menu heading on the
screen.)

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Page 107
Para beginning "Keystrokes", 1st word

Change "Keystrokes" to "Keyboard Shortcuts", to correspond to the
wording in the screenshot in 4-8.

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Page 115
3rd line of text

Change "first couple letters" to "first couple of letters"

Similarly change:
260, 3rd para., 2nd line
267, 6th para., last line

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Page 175-76
passim

Renumber items 1-5 as 2-6.

Item 1 already exists on p. 174.

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Page 233
2nd para., 4th line

Change "starts" to "stars"

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Page 236
2nd line

Change "on Windows" to "in Windows"

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Page 296
first line

"your" should be "you're"

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Page 353
Fig. 13-3, para. labelled "Top," 3rd line

Change "on (top) and off" to "off (top) and on"

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Page 400
last line

Change "triange" to "triangle"

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Page 423
6th para.

Add a period after "for your editing pleasure"

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Page 483
Under heading Character Map, last line

Change 369 to 371

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Page 485
Under heading Display Control Panel, last line

Delete the comma

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Page 497
4th para.

Delete the first sentence--it duplicates the first sentence of the previous
para.

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Page 504
entry for Bonjour networking

Change 304 to 308

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Page 512
entry for "smart mailboxes"

delete 270 (there's no reference to the topic on that page)

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