The Little Mac Book, Snow Leopard Edition

Chapter 5. Menus & Shortcuts

Wherever you are 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.

In this chapter
Choosing a menu command			50
	Single-click, slide, single-click		50
	Press, hold, let go		51
Gray vs. black commands			52
Hierarchical menus			53
Ellipses in the menus			54
Contextual menus			55
	Two-button mouse		55
Keyboard shortcuts			56
	Modifier keys and their symbols		56
	How to use a keyboard shortcut		57
Also Try This			58
	Other menus		58
		Double arrows ...