September 2005
Beginner to intermediate
528 pages
23h 55m
English
Content preview from Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition
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Web page that doesn’t work. If you click Options, you can even send Apple a screen
illustration of, for example, a screwy Web-page layout that Safari delivered.
Bookmarks bar
The Bookmarks menu is one way to maintaining a list of Web sites you visit frequently.
But opening a Web page from that menu requires two mouse clicks—an exorbitant
expenditure of energy. The Bookmarks bar (ViewÆBookmarks Bar), on the other
hand, lets you summon a few very favorite Web pages with only one click.
Figure 11-3 illustrates how to add buttons to, and remove them from, this toolbar.
Figure 11-3:
Top: Once you’ve got a juicy
Web page on the screen, you
can drag its tiny page-logo
icon from the Address bar
directly onto the Bookmarks
bar.
Second from top: Safari
realizes that you may prefer
a shorter name to appear on
the space-limited bar, so it
offers you the chance to type
in a label you prefer.
Third from top: When you
click OK, the new button
appears on the bar, as
shown here. (You can also
drag any link, such as a blue
underlined phrase, from a
Web page onto the bar—or
even drag an icon from
your desktop!) To remove a
button, drag it off the bar; to
rearrange the buttons, just
drag them.
Bottom: Click the little book
icon (circled) to open the Or-
ganize Bookmarks window.
Here, you can drag names
up or down to rearrange
the list, or drag them into
a “folder” ...
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