The Little Mac Book, Leopard Edition

6 Use an Application

In this chapter

Open an application

Open a blank document

New vs. Open

I-beam

Insertion point

Delete (or Backspace)

Delete characters

One space after periods

Select (highlight) text

Replace highlighted text

Extra tips

Change fonts (typefaces) and type size

Alignment

Cut, Copy, and the Clipboard

Cut

Copy

Paste

Undo

Keyboard shortcuts

Delete or Clear and the Clipboard

Access special characters

Use real accent marks

Document windows

Also Try This

Remember

This chapter covers what you will do most often on your Mac: open an application and type a document. In the following chapter, you’ll save the document, print it, close it, and quit the application.

You’re going to use the TextEdit application in this chapter, ...