Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition

introduction

The Web site also offers corrections and updates to the book (to see them, click the

book’s title, then click Errata). In fact, you’re encouraged to submit such corrections

and updates yourself. In an effort to keep the book as up-to-date and accurate as

possible, each time we print more copies of this book, we’ll make any confirmed cor-

rections you’ve suggested. We’ll also note such changes on the Web site, so that you

can mark important corrections into your own copy of the book, if you like.

In the meantime, we’d love to hear your own suggestions for books in the Missing

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The Very Basics

To use this book, and indeed to use any kind of computer, you need to know a few

basics. This book assumes that, as somebody who’s used Windows, you’re already

familiar with a few terms and concepts:

• Clicking. To click means to point the arrow cursor at something on the screen and

then—without moving the cursor at all—to press and release the button on the

mouse (or your laptop trackpad). To double-click, of course, means to click twice

in rapid succession, again without moving the cursor at all. And to drag means to

move the cursor while pressing the button.

When you’re told to c-click something, you click while pressing the c key