macOS Monterey For Dummies. Bob LeVitus
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Double-click: Click twice in rapid succession. With a little practice, you can perfect this technique in no time. Use a double-click to open a folder or to launch a file or application.Trackpad users: Press down on the pad two times in rapid succession.
Secondary-click: Hold down the Control key while single-clicking. (Also called Control-click or right-click.)Trackpad users can either hold down the Control key while pressing down on the trackpad with one finger, or tap the trackpad with two fingers without holding down the Control key.If tapping your trackpad with two fingers didn’t bring up a little menu, check your Trackpad System Preferences pane (see Chapter 6).Control-clicking displays a contextual menu (also known as a shortcut menu). In fact, if you’re blessed with a two-or-more-button mouse (such as the Apple Magic Mouse), you can right-click and avoid having to hold down the Control key. If it doesn’t work, you can enable this feature in the Mouse System Preferences pane.)
Drag: Dragging something usually means you have to click it first and hold down the mouse or trackpad button. Then you move the mouse on your desk or mouse pad (or your finger on the trackpad) so that the cursor and whatever you select moves across the screen. The combination of holding down the button and dragging the mouse is usually referred to as clicking and dragging.
Wiggle (or jiggle): This welcome improvement is awesome when you lose track of the pointer on your screen. Just wiggle your mouse back and forth (or jiggle your finger back and forth on the trackpad) for a few seconds and the pointer will magically get much bigger, making it easier to see on the screen. And, of course, when you stop wiggling or jiggling, the pointer returns to its normal size.
Choosing an item from a menu: To get to macOS menu commands, you must first open a menu and then choose the option you want. Point at the name of the menu you want with your cursor, press the mouse button, and then drag downward until you select the command you want. When the command is highlighted, finish selecting by letting go of the mouse button.
Go ahead and give it a try … I’ll wait.
Not Just a Beatles Movie: Help and the Help Menu
One of the best features of all Macs is the excellent built-in help, and macOS Monterey doesn’t cheat you on that legacy: This system has online help in abundance. When you have a question about how to do something, Help Center is the first place you should visit (after this book, of course).
Clicking the Help menu reveals the Search field at the top of the menu and the macOS Help item. Choosing macOS Help opens the window shown in Figure 1-5.
FIGURE 1-5: Mac Help is nothing if not helpful.
You can browse Help by clicking a topic in the table of contents and then clicking a subtopic. If you don’t see the table of contents, click the Table of contents icon, labeled in Figure 1-5.
To search Mac Help, simply type a word or phrase in either Search field — the one in the Help menu itself or the one near the top of the Help window on the right side — and then press Return. In a few seconds, your Mac provides one or more articles to read, which (theoretically) are related to your question. As long as your Mac is connected to the internet, search results include articles from the Apple online support database.
Furthermore, after you ask a question and Mac Help has grabbed the answer from the Apple website, the answer remains on your hard drive forever. If you ask for it again — even at a later date — your computer won’t have to download it from the Apple website again.
If you see a See More Results on the Web link, you can click it to launch Safari and perform a web search for the phrase you typed.
1 In the Help menu’s Search field, type a word or phrase.
2 Select any item that has a menu icon to its left (such as the items with Trash in their names in Figure 1-6).The automatic visual cue — an arrow — appears, pointing at that command in the appropriate menu.
Finally, don’t forget that most apps have their own Help systems, so if you want general help with your Mac, you need to first click the Finder icon in the dock, click the desktop, or use the app-switching shortcut ⌘ +Tab to activate Finder. Only then can you choose Mac Help from Finder’s Help menu.