Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition

484 switching to the mac: the missing manual

Copy, Cut, Paste

When you’re editing in a word processor or graphics program, the Mac OS X Cut,

Copy, and Paste commands work exactly as they do in Windows.

At the desktop, however, there are a few differences. You can indeed copy icons and

paste them into a new window using the Copy and Paste commands—you just can’t

cut them out of a window, as you can in Windows. On the other hand, Mac OS X offers

a handy secondary feature: If you paste into a word or text processor instead of into

another desktop window, you get a tidy list of the names of the icons you copied.

Ctrl Key

On the Macintosh, you generally substitute the c key in keystrokes that would nor-

mally involve the Control key. In other words, the Save command is now c-S instead

of Ctrl-S, Open is c-O instead of Ctrl-O, and so on.

Date and Time

You set your Mac’s calendar and clock in the Date & Time pane of System Prefer-

ences.

Delete Key (Forward Delete)

Desktop Mac keyboards have a forward-delete key (labeled Del) exactly like the ones

on PCs. On Mac laptops, you trigger the forward-delete function by pressing the

regularly scheduled Delete key while pressing the Fn key in the lower-left corner of

the keyboard.

Desktop

The Macintosh desktop is pretty much the same idea as the Windows desktop, with

a few key differences:

• Disk icons show up on the Mac desktop as soon as they are ...