Directions: You can print out this page and use it with the Powerpoint tutorial program called "Intro to Macs".

Using the Mouse

1. What are the three essential skills of using the mouse?___________________________

2. How do you DRAG using the mouse? ___________________________

The Desktop
3. In the Macintosh system, what is like a file drawer or cabinet? ___________________________

4. Where do you put things you don't want anymore? ___________________________

5. When you turn on your computer screen, what do you see? (Hint, it is ready for you to use) ___________________________

6. ICONS represent ___________________________ that you use as you work.

7. The hard disk stores your work and ___________________________programs. It also contains programs your Mac uses to ___________________________.

8. What is the main difference between a FLOPPY disk and the HARD Disk?

________________________________________________________

9. Why do they call the Menus on the Mac "Pull-down" menus?

______________________________________________________

10. What commands are under the FILE menu?

________________________________________________________________________

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Creating a Document

11. What is the icon for the Hard Disk? Draw it.

12. What are the steps in OPENING the Hard Disk?

1. Click the Hard Disk (HD) icon. The HD is now _______________.

2. Choose OPEN command from the _________________menu.
   • Point to the FILE menu_____________.

   • Press and __________ _________the button.

   • ____________through the list of commands. They will become HIGHLIGHTED as you ______________through them.

   • ____________the button when OPEN is highlighted.
     

13. What does the TITLE Bar display?

14. What are the steps in opening Microsoft Word?

15. The window called "UNTITLED" or "Document 1" is like a _____________________.

16. WHY do you save your document on a disk? (floppy or hard disk)

17.HOW do you SAVE your document on a disk?

You have to give it a ______________ and tell the ____________where to store it.

STEPS:
• (A)

• (B)

• (C)
  

18. What appears when you choose SAVE?

19. What does Macintosh use a dialog box for?

20. What happens when you type when a TEXT BOX is highlighted?

21. After you SAVE a document, where does the new name appear?

22. After you SAVE a document, you can QUIT. What are the steps for quitting? (There are four!)

Working with More than 1 Program

Copying and Pasting from One Document to Another

23. What do you do first when you want to copy something from Word?

24. After you open Word, next you should _________________the text you want to move to your web page.

25. After you highlight the text, go to _________________ and choose ____________________.

26. To paste, open up the ______________ ________________ program. Open a _______ document. Put your cursor where you want the text copied and go the ___________ menu and choose ___________.

27. When you copy something, it is put into a space in the computer's memory called the

___________________________.

28. How do you pull down the Application menu?

1. ___________________________

2. ___________________________

29. How can you tell which program is active? ___________________________

30. If there are no programs runnning what will you see? ___________________________

31. What does the FINDER do?

1. ___________________________

2. ___________________________

32. What are the 2 steps in Choosing the Finder program from the Application menu?

1.___________________________

2. ___________________________

33. What does the pointer turn into while your work is being saved? ___________________________

34. When your work has been saved, the ___________________________will reappear.

Filing Your Work

35. You can keep related documents together in a ___________________________.

36. A Mac folder is like a regular ___________________________folder. You can put

___________________________or more documents inside it.

37. What are the steps in creating a new folder?

1. ___________________________

2. ___________________________

38. How do you name a new folder? _______________________________________________________________

39. How do you put a document in a folder?

______________________________________________________

40. When there is more than one window open on your desktop, the ACTIVE window has lines in its ___________________________ ___________________________.

41. How do you bring a partially hidden window to the front so you can work with it?

______________________________________________________

42. What command in the File Menu closes the active window? ___________________________

43. What is the faster way to close a window? ___________________________

More about the Desktop

44. What is the shorter, easier way of opening an ICON? ___________________________

45. What is a SCROLL BAR?

46. Inside the scroll bar is a box that looks like this. It is called

___________________________.

47. What is resizing a window mean? ___________________________

48. There are three ways to make the hidden contents of a window visible. What are they?

___________________________

___________________________

___________________________

49. How can you retrieve (get back) documents from the trash?

___________________________

___________________________

50. Where can you get help while you're using the computer?

___________________________

51. What is a balloon? ___________________________

52. What command in the SPECIAL menu do you use to empty the trash? ___________________________

53. How do you take a floppy disk out of the computer? ______________________________________________________

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