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My New Mac, Snow Leopard Edition, 2nd Edition
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My New Mac, Snow Leopard Edition, 2nd Edition

by Wallace Wang
August 2009
Beginner
512 pages
11h 9m
English
No Starch Press
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Dragging and Dropping Files into Programs

When you double-click a file icon displayed in the Finder, your Macintosh usually starts the program that originally created that file. However, many files can be opened by different programs.

For example, a Microsoft Word file can be opened by Microsoft Word, TextEdit, Pages (the word processor found in the iWork suite, sold separately by Apple), or even an old copy of AppleWorks. A Microsoft Excel spreadsheet can be opened by Microsoft Excel or Numbers (the spreadsheet found in the iWork suite).

If you want to open a file in a program other than the one used to create it, you have two choices. First, you can right-click (or ctrl-click) the file, choose Open With, and then choose the name of the program ...

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