Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition

488 switching to the mac: the missing manual

Maximize Button

On the Mac, clicking the Zoom button (the green button at the upper-left corner of a

window) does something like the Maximize button in Windows: It makes your win-

dow larger. On the Mac, however, clicking the Zoom button rarely makes the window

expand to fill the entire screen. Instead, the window grows—or shrinks—precisely

enough to enclose its contents.

Menus

Here’s one of the biggest differences between the Mac and Windows: On the Macintosh,

there’s only one menu bar, always at the very top of the screen. The menus change

depending on the program and the window you’re using, but the point is that the

menu bar is no longer inside each window you open.

Tip: Just because you don’t see the little underlines in the menus doesn’t mean you can’t operate all of the

menus from the keyboard, as in Windows. See page 115 for details.

Minimize Button

You can minimize a Mac OS X window to the Dock, just the way you would minimize

a Windows window to the taskbar. You do so by double-clicking its title bar, pressing

c-M, choosing WindowÆMinimize Window, or clicking the yellow Minimize button

at the top left of a window. (Restore the window by clicking its icon on the Dock.)

Mouse Control Panel

The equivalent settings await you in the Keyboard & Mouse panel of system Prefer-

ences.

My Computer

The Mac’s Computer window is very similar (choo ...