The Little Mac Book, Lion Edition

5. Menus & Shortcuts

In this chapter

Choosing a menu command 52

Single-click, slide, single-click 52

Press–hold–let go 53

Black vs. gray commands 54

Hierarchical menus 55

Ellipses in the menus 56

Contextual menus 57

Two-button mouse for a right-click 57

Keyboard shortcuts 58

Modifier keys and their symbols 58

How to use a keyboard shortcut 59

Also Try This 60

Other menus 60

Double arrows 60

Single arrows or triangles on buttons 60

Color wells 61

Remember 62

As you work on your Macintosh, you’ll see a menu bar across the top of the screen, as shown below. Also shown below is a menu: When you single-click a word in the menu bar, a list of menu commands drops down. This chapter discusses various sorts of menus, the commands, and how to use them. ...