April 12, 2005
Help
While you are waiting for the book Mom, you might want to get familiar with the "Help Viewer" application (ie.program). Your Mac has a universal help system available, which will tell you the basics about whichever application you happen to be using. The Help Viewer application can be launched from the "Help" menu, which is always the last menu to the right, in the top menu bar. Help Viewer is like a mini-web browser that will display help info for whatever application you are using when you launch Help Viewer.
If you launch Help Viewer when you are using the Finder, it will open to the page, "Mac OS Help" which contains general infomation about how to do all kinds of stuff with your Mac. I'd recommend browsing through "New to Mac OS X?" This section contains really basic orientation info. Check out the sections for new computer users, and for people who've switched from Windows. You might also want to explore "Browse Mac OS Help."
Here's a trick you can try right now: hold down the APPLE key (beside the space bar), and the SHIFT key, and then press the QUESTION MARK key. Help Viewer will launch and display help info for Safari, or whatever application you are using when you press the keys. Very handy for figuring out how to use an unfamiliar application.
Posted by Brad at 10:35 PM | Comments (1)
