![]() There are actually three different Exposé modes. Now, this is going to get very mind-blowing very fast, so read slowly and keep your shoulders relaxed. Itâs fast, efficient, animated, and a lot of fun. ![]() You click the one you want, and youâre there. The concept is delicious: With the one mouse click or keystroke, Mac OS X shrinks all windows in all programs to a size that fits on the screen ( Figure 4-4), like index cards on a bulletin board. Off you would go, burrowing through the microscopic pop-up menus of your Dock, trying to find the window you want.Įxposé represents the first fresh look at this problem in decades. Managing all the open windows in all the open programs used to be like herding cats. This Application menu ( Figure 4-1) offers a number of commands pertaining to the entire program and its windows, including About, Quit, and Hide. ![]() You wonât be asked again about this version of this particular program. If the program thatâs about to open isnât the one you were expecting, well, youâve got a chance to back out of it.Īnd if it is the program you were expecting, click Continue. When double-clicking some document opens a program for the first time, this dialog box appears, just to let you know whatâs about to happen. You innocently double-click some document, but an unanticipated program opensâand youâve just opened Pandoraâs box. It commandeers a certain document type (like MP3 or JPEG), reassigning it to its installer. So the spyware tricks you into running its installer. You wouldnât be so stupid as to double-click an application called Spyware Installerâ¢, of course. See, in the Windows world, spyware authors have to be sneaky about how they install their stuff on your PC. Itâs the silent parade of evil hackers, lurking out there in Internet Land, waiting for the right moment to bring down the Mac. Do you want to continue?â Well, HELLO! I double-clicked the icon, didnât I? Does Apple think Iâm some kind of idiot? And now the Mac asks me: âYou are opening Microsoft Excel for the first time. So, Iâve just bought a Mac, Iâm all excited, and I double-click an Excel document. Some, like FileMaker and PowerPoint, ask if you want to open an existing document or create a new one.Īnd a few oddball programs donât open any window at all when first launched.įrequently Asked Question: Whatâs with the Big âDuhâ? Some, like iDVD, automatically open the last file you worked on. Most present you with a new, blank, untitled document. What happens next depends on the program youâre using. During this brief interval, the icon of the opening program jumps up and down eagerly in your Dock. When you launch a program, the Mac reads its computer code, which lies on your hard driveâs surface, and feeds it quickly into RAM (memory). Open a document icon in any of these ways, or drag a document onto the icon of a program that can open it (whether in the Dock, the Finder toolbar, the Sidebar, or in a folder window). Use the submenus of the menuâs Recent Itemsâ∪pplications command. Highlight an application icon and then press â-O (short for FileâOpen) or â-â. Hit â-space bar, type the first letters of the programâs name, and then press Return.ĭouble-click an applicationâs icon in the Finder. As this chapter will make clear, the relationship between programs and their documents differs in several substantial ways from the way things work in Windows.Ĭlick a programâs icon on the Dock, the Sidebar, or the Finder toolbar. ( Chapter 7 offers more detail on finding Mac versions of your favorite PC programs.)īut even if switching to the Mac OS X versions of your programs is relatively easy, learning how Mac OS X programs in general operate may require some study. You may occasionally encounter a tiny formatting differenceâa line thickness change, a movie file that requires a plug-inâbut most documents open flawlessly when moved between Macs and PCs. ![]() Same thing with Excel spreadsheets (.xls), PowerPoint slideshows (.ppt), Photoshop documents (.psd), and on and on. A Microsoft Word document, for example, requires no conversion when transferred from a Mac to a PC or vice versa. The best part: The documents you create with the Mac versions are generally identical in format to the ones created in Windows. Sometimes you have to buy the Mac version separately sometimes itâs on the same CD. Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign FileMaker Pro Dreamweaver and many other programs are available for both Mac and Windows. The beauty of life in the Era of Switchers is that most of the big-boy programs are available in nearly identical versions for both the Mac and Windows. Chapter 4. Documents, Programs, & Spaces ![]()
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