Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, Panther Edition

About These Arrows

Throughout this book, and throughout the Missing Manual series, you’ll find sentences like this one: “Open the System folder→Libraries→Fonts folder.” That’s shorthand for a much longer instruction that directs you to open three nested folders in sequence, like this: “On your hard drive, you’ll find a folder called System. Open that. Inside the System folder window is a folder called Libraries; double-click it to open it. Inside that folder is yet another one called Fonts. Double-click to open it, too.”

Similarly, this kind of arrow shorthand helps to simplify the business of choosing commands in menus, such as a →Dock→Position on Left, as shown in Figure I-1.

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In the meantime, we’d love to hear your own suggestions for new books in the Missing Manual line. There’s a place for that on the Web site, too, as well as a place to sign up for free email notification of new titles in the series.

Figure 1. In this book, arrow notations help to simplify folder and menu instructions. For example, “Choose a→Dock→Position on Left” is a more compact way of saying, “From the a menu, choose Dock; from the submenu that than appears, choose Position on Left,” as shown here.