Errata

This book gives you three kinds of instructions that require you to use the Mac's mouse.

To

This book gives you three kinds of instructions that require you to use the mouse.

replacing "the" with "they"



From

The following pages don't actually show you how to do very much - but the do prepare you, psychologically and philosophically, for what your Windows PC holds in store.

To

The following pages don't actually show you how to do very much - but they do prepare you, psychologically and philosophically, for what your Windows PC holds in store.

"... that require you to use the Mac's mouse."

(this is a Windows Vista text -- probably should be "the PC's mouse")

In "...like the ones shown..." you might want to make "ones" singular, since there is only one menu shown
there.

You might want to mention that the file needs to be highlighted first before those actions can be
performed.

Also, are there really 165 ways?

parenthesis is after period.

... software programs).

Again with the parenthesis and periods? Maybe I was taught differently...

"This list is"

does not need to be in italics

As you type, Vista "winnows"?

Why is word "application" in bold? Seems out of place.

To the right OF (not to the right OFF)

Not sure, but it seems like "Default Programs," shouldn't be there.

Start --> Control Panel would make more sense.

If indeed author intended for "Default Programs," to be there,
There is an extraneous comma at the end of Programs.

The <Tip> mentions "... music by the Beatles and U2..."

The illustration at the bottom shows filtering for Fleetwood Mac, James Taylor, and John Mayer.
The inconsistency distracts from the point being made.

Maybe it is just me, but it took awhile to understand that I had to press: Ctrl+Alt+Tab to get the menu to
"stick"

Author may wish to clarify this point somewhat to avoid confusion.

Author refers readers to page 68, however, I think that is incorrect.

Page 69, or Figure 3-17 would be more appropriate.

With the "press of a keystroke"?

That seems like odd usage.

Perhaps simply: "With a keystroke," or "With the press of a key,"

The caption mentions "... slo-mo trick described in Appendix B."

There's no Appendix B in the table of contents, nor at the back of the book.
There's no mention of Appendix B in the index. There's no mention of "slo-mo"
in the index.

The Figure 4-3 shows the "Date" field in the Advanced Search window. The text
on page 82 mentions the "Date modified/created" field.

The inconsistency confuses.

The Figure 4-3 depicts several more search fields/criteria than are
bullet-listed on pages 82 and 83. For example, "Authors".

The Tip mentions typing something "right into Google's main search box"

Figure 4-3 doesn't appear to contain a "Google main search box".

Point#2 -- this is a Microsoft product -- what about Microsoft's search?

"... the handy numeric 'badge' on your cursor..."

?What badge?! (not illustrated, not defined elsewhere)

Your sentence, "And because you can make as many shortcuts of a file as you want, and put them anywhere on your PC . . . " implies that shortcuts may be inserted in Excel spreadsheet fields, etc. This does not appear to be possible. The language should be clarified.

Your sentence, "And because you can make as many shortcuts of a file as you want, and put them anywhere on your PC . . . " implies that shortcuts may be inserted in Excel spreadsheet fields, etc. This does not appear to be possible. The language should be clarified.

"... newfangled UDF format ..."

Not defined nor referenced anywhere before this introduction. Not in Index.

"... at the bottom of the window ..."

?what window? not illustrated, no reference to a figure illustrating this.

"Where do you want to redesign today?"

Sorry, but that makes no sense. Did he mean to say "WHAT do you want to redesign today?" Or something
else?

Why is it "ironic" that the Sample Pictures are in the Public Pictures folder?

pix? Shouldn't that be pics?

-and Windows Vista's built in screen saver is...

Should read: "built in screen saverS ARE certainly entertaining", since he is referring to all of Vista's
screen savers

"... by double-clicking the Control menu spot just to the left of the File
menu..."

?File menu?! Some of the windows (e.g., Figure 6-10) includes a File menu
option, but didn't the book say this was gone?

"Nthat that it's much work..."

?"Not that it's much work..."

"... the Balanced plan ..."

The top illustration has no such section/selection.

"...triangular Play button to the right..."

The Figure 6-15 illustrates a "Test" button, not a "Play" button.

"... click the unlabeled Play button ..."

Does that mean "look for the button that isn't labeled in the Figure 7-3?"

Nothing about this Figure seems relevant to the topic (Photos, Music, Movies).

This section seems to be dealing with the topic "Make a Slideshow Movie".
Unfortunately, the section seems incomplete (?where's the illustration?), and
worse, the 3rd paragraph seems to be speaking to screen-saver/slideshow.

Oh by the way, the 3rd paragraph mentions "... and wait 20 minutes ...", but
the (?misplaced?) Figure 7-11 on the preceding page illustrates a 10 minute
wait.

If this book is intended for the novice user, an inconsistency like that will
have him/her wondering if setting 10 minutes actually causes it to wait 20...

"Using this submenu..."

The illustration doesn't show a submenu.

"... in My Playlists ..."

Didn't I read that the "My" was eliminated? The Figure 7-15 does not show "My
Playlists", just "Playlists."

"The dialog box shown in Figure 7-18..."

There's no dialog box showing in Figure 7-18?!

"... described in Appendix A."

No Appendix A!

The caption mentions "top" and "bottom" -- the illustration shows
"side-by-side".

Also, the last words in the "Bottom" section are "... Figure 8-1 shows
that...". Figure 8-1 doesn't show that.

The instructions include a key-combination unlikely to be found on a PC -- did
you intend to say <WindowsButton>-<Enter>, rather than <MacButton>-<Enter>?

"...preview of the end ..."

?End of what? There's something missing here.

" ... by clicking Contacts in the toolbar."

"Contacts" doesn't show in any Toolbar illustrated (not in 10-2 or 10-3).

"The other tabs are: ..."

MISSING! There are no "other tabs" explained in the text.

"... as described below, ..."

I found nothing "below" or anywhere else describing how to create faxes from
thin air.

"... editing the Registry (Appendix B)..."

No appendices in this book.

"...by sending a specific ..."

Sentence ends in mid-air -- "a specific" what?!

"...password into both boxes and then click Next."

Is there supposed to be an illustration of this?

"... message shown at top in Figure 13-3 ..."

I don't see that in the illustration, top or bottom, in Figure 13-3.

There is only one illustration, not two (top, bottom).

And Figure 14-2 does NOT contain checkboxes, as stated.

"Top: As noted earlier..."

There is only one figure, and it does not illustrate file types.

"Clicking the 'Change an account' link at the top..."

The illustration doesn't depict a 'Change an account' link.

"If you first turn on the machine."

Not a sentence. Doesn't seem to fit with remainder of topic.

The 'Network and Sharing Center' depicted in Figure 16-2 does NOT contain a
"Customize" task in the left-side task pane.

And it DOES contain "Set up a connection or network", and "Manage network
connections", and "Diagnose and repair" tasks, none of which are explained in
the text.

"Open a selected program elevated"

?"elevated"? This term is not in the Index, and not explained elsewhere. What
does this phrase mean?