Finding Your Way Around If you haven’t been through this tour before, do the topics in order. Select a topic by clicking it. The desktop Moving icons Menus Choosing from menus Opening disks More icons Working with more than one window Changing the size of windows Scrolling and closing
	1. The desktop Your desktop is where you keep the things you need to get your work done.
	You have a desktop when you work with the Macintosh, too. It’s called the Finder desktop.
	Like the usual sort of desktop, the Macintosh desktop is the place where you keep your work and the tools you work with. The Macintosh represents these with pictures, or icons.
	This icon represents your hard disk.
	This icon represents the disk that’s in your disk drive.
	This Trash icon is where you throw away work you don’t want any more.
	When you point to an icon and click the mouse button, the icon is highlighted. This is called selecting. You select icons on the desktop to tell the Macintosh what you want to work on.
	To deselect an icon, you either select something else...
	Or just click in an empty area of the desktop.
	Let me try.
	Select the hard disk icon.
	Good. Now select the icon for the disk that’s in the disk drive.
	That’s right. Now select the Trash icon.
	In this section, you’ve identified three kinds of icons and learned how to select them. This is how you tell the Macintosh what you want to work with. In section 2, you’ll see how you can move these icons around.
	2. Moving icons You can move things around on the Finder desktop, just as you can on an ordinary desk. As you’ll see later, moving icons is one of the main ways of accomplishing desktop tasks.
	To move an icon, you just point to it, press and hold the mouse button, and drag to place the icon where you want it.
	By moving icons, you can rearrange your desktpop and also do other desktop tasks you’ll learn about later.
	Let me try.
	Practice dragging the icons to different positions on the desktop. Click the forward arrow when you’re ready to continue.
	In this section, you’ve learned how to move icons around on the desktop. As you’ll see later, this is one of the main ways of working with your Macintosh. Another way is by using pull-down menus. You’ll learn about menus in section 3.
	3. Menus The words you see across the top of the screen are menu titles. Each menu is a list of commands. You tell your Macintosh what to do by choosing commands from menus.
	Macintosh menus are called pull-down menus because the list of choices stays out of sight until you open the menu by pulling it down.
	To open a menu, you first point to the menu title.
	Then you press the mouse button and hold it down.
	The list of choices appears. It goes away when you release the mouse button.
	Open the File menu: Point to the word “File” in the upper-left corner. Press and hold the mouse button. When you’ve looked at the commands, release the button. Click the forward arrow when you’re ready to go on.
	Good. In the same way, open the Edit menu and look at the commands. Click the forward arrow when you’re ready to go on.
	In this section, you’ve learned how to open menus. In section 4, you’ll learn about choosing a command.
	4. Choosing from menus When you choose a command from a menu, you’re giving the Macintosh an instruction to carry out. (We won’t give any actual commands in this section, though. The Sample menu is just for practice.)
	To choose a command from a menu, you first open the menu.
	Then you drag the pointer down the list. The available choices are highlighted as you point to them.
	When you’ve highlighted the choice you want, you release the mouse button. This activates the command.
	Sometimes certain menu commands are dimmed. This means those commands are inappropriate at the moment. You can’t choose a dimmed command.
	If you pull down a menu and then decide not to choose anything, you can just move the pointer off the menu and release the mouse button. Nothing will happen.
	Let me try.
	Open the Sample menu and choose Command 1.
	To choose Command 1 from the Sample menu, follow these steps: Point to the title of the Sample menu. Press and hold the mouse button. Drag down the list until Command 1 is highlighted. Release the mouse button.
	Good. Just for practice, open the Sample menu again and choose Command 4.
	In this section, you’ve mastered the technique of choosing from menus. In section 5, you’ll see how to open a disk by choosing a menu command.
	5. Opening disks Now it’s time to put your Macintosh to work by giving some real commands. Giving the Macintosh a command is usually a two-step process: You select what you want to work with. You choose a command from a menu. The command acts on the item you’ve selected.
	The first thing you’ll want to do on the desktop is to see what’s stored on your disks. To do this, you open the disk icon with these two steps: You click the disk icon to select it. You choose Open from the File menu.
	The disk window opens to show you the contents of the disk. In this case, it’s the hard disk.
	You can also open an icon by using a handy shortcut called double-clicking. To do this, you just move the pointer to the icon and click the mouse button twice in quick succession.
	As many windows as you want can be open on the screen at one time.
	Let me try.
	You want to open the hard disk icon. First select it by clicking it.
	Choose Open from the File menu.
	Very good. Now try opening the other disk icon by double-clicking it.
	In this section, you’ve learned how to opne an icon in two ways: by selecting the icon and choosing Open from the File menu; and by double-clicking the icon. In section 6, you’ll look at the icons that tell you what’s on the disk.
	6. More icons The icons in the disk window show you what’s stored on the disk.
	Icons that look like this represent applications.
	An application is a program that makes the Macintosh do a specific kind of work.
	A word processing program is for writing.
	A spreadsheet program is for calculating.
	A database program is for managing lists of information.
	A graphics program is for drawing.
	Icons that look like this represent documents.
	A document is a piece of work you’ve created with an application program.
	It might be a letter...
	Or a budget...
	Or an address list...
	Or a chart.
	Icons that look like this are called folders.
	Folders serve the same purpose as regular file folders. You use them to keep related documents together.
	The System Folder contains the programs that make the Macintosh work. Any disk you use to start up your Macintosh must have a System file on it.
	The Utilities Folder contains useful programs for working with your Macintosh.
	Other folders – which you name – contain the documents you’ve created.
	Let me try.
	Select the icon that represents the application program you’d use to work on a budget.
	Select the document icon called Letter.
	Select the icon you use to keep related documents together.
	In this section, you’ve learned how to recognize the different kinds of icons in a disk window. In section 7, you’ll learn how to see more than one window at a time.
	7. Working with more than one window Sometimes you’ll have several overlapping windows on your screen. One window might block your view of another. There are several ways you can bring hidden windows into view.
	One way is just by clicking in the window you want to see. This brings that window to the front, making it the active window.
	You can work only in the window that’s currently active. The active window always has stripes in the title bar, across the top.
	To make a different window active, you click in any part of it.
	You can also move a window to a new position on the screen. You just place the pointer on the title bar and drag.
	By changing the active window and moving windows around, you can see the contents of all your disks.
	Let me try.
	Right now the Work Disk window is active. Make the other window active.
	Now make the Work Disk window active again.
	That’s right. Now move the window called Work Disk by following these steps: Point to the title bar of the window called Work Disk. Make sure the tip of the arrow is within the bar. Hold down the mouse button and drag the window up. Click the forward arrow when you’re ready to go on.
	In this section, you’ve learned how you can see the contents of more than one window at once by rearranging windows on the screen. In section 8, you’ll learn another way to work with windows.
	8. Changing the size of windows Changing your windows’ size is another way of getting a good view of their contents.
	To make a window smaller or larger, you use the size box, which is in the lower-right corner.
	You point to the size box, press and hold the mouse button, and drag.
	Once you’ve made a window smaller, you can pop it back to full-screen size with one click in the zoom box.
	Clicking again in the zoom box shrinks the window to the size it was before.
	Let me try.
	Right now the Work Disk window is active. Make the HD 20 window active.
	Good. Now use the size box to make the HD 20 window smaller. Click the forward arrow when you’re ready to go on.
	In this section, you’ve learned how to change the size of the windows on your screen. This will come in handy when you want to see tohe contents of several overlapping windows. You can also move the contents of a window. In section 9, you’ll find out how.
	9. Scrolling and closing Sometimes there are so many icons in a windows that they don’t all fit on the screen at once. You use the scroll bar to move to other parts of the window.
	Clicking the up or down arrow moves the contents of the window vertically.
	Clicking the right or left arrow moves the contents horizontally.
	You can also drag the scroll box along the scroll bar to accomplish the same thing more quickly. Dragging the scroll box all the way to the top shows you the top of the window.
	If the scroll bars are white, it means there’s nowhere to scroll to. All the icons are showing in the window.
	When you’re through working with a window, you can close it either by choosing Close from the File menu or by clicking the close box.
	The window disappears back into the disk icon.
	Let me try.
	Practice scrolling around in this window. Drag the scroll boxes along the bars. Click the right, left, up, and down arrows. Click the forward arrow when you’re ready to go on.
	Now close this window by clicking the close box. Click the forward arrow to continue.
	In this section, you’ve learned about scrolling and closing windows. In “Finding Your Way Around,” you’ve identified the elements of the desktop and practiced basic techniques. Now you’re ready for the next step. Choose “Getting Down to Work” from the Main Menu.