Mac OS® X Leopard™ Bible

Chapter 5. Working with Applications and Documents

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Looking at applications

• Installing applications

• Removing applications

• Opening applications and documents

• Managing multiple open applications

• Creating documents

• Editing documents

• Saving documents

• Moving documents

• Sharing files with other local users

• Quitting applications

Chapter 2 explained just how useful the Finder is, but you can spend only so much time tinkering with the look and feel of your Mac, browsing your drive, and organizing files and folders. Pretty soon, it's time to get some real work done. When that time comes, you need to open some applications and work with some documents. Applications are the tools. Documents are the tangible results of doing the work.

In this chapter, we look at the different types of applications you can use in Mac OS X and explore how you open applications to start using them. We also talk about opening documents with the Finder and with other applications. We discuss how to manage having several applications open at the same time. Then we delve into some basic methods of editing documents—copy-and-paste, drag-and-drop. We cover the ways you can create new documents and save the documents you've created or changed. Finally, we describe how to quit applications when you're finished.

This chapter covers general techniques that apply to almost all applications and documents. Other chapters get specific about particular applications that are included with Mac OS X. You can find out where we cover ...