Mac OS v10.5 Leopard Overview

 

Powering up/ Shutting Down

 

Keyboard

            Keystrokes

                        Open/close files or windows

                        Quit

                        Save

                        Print

                        Send to trash

                        Empty trash

 

Windows

            Title bar

                        Title

                        Close button

                        Minimize button

                        Zoom button

                        Control button

            Toolbar

                        Back/Forward buttons

                        View buttons

                                    Icon View

                                    List View

                                    Column View

                                    Slideshow View

                        Quick Look/Slideshow button

                        Task button

Search field

            Sidebar

                        Volume displays

            Column Headings (When in Column or Slideshow View)

            Contents window

            Scroll bars

            Resize control

            Status bar

 

Dock

            Identifying items in Dock

            Identifying running applications in Dock

            Launching applications from Dock

            Selecting applications from Dock

 

Disk Organization

HFS (Hierarchical Filing System)

                        Looking at the Hard Drive

                        Pathnames

                        View buttons

                                    Icons

List

Columns

Sorting Contents using Column Headers

                        Naming and Re-naming

 


Folders

            Creating

            Naming

            Moving

                        Items from a folder

                        Items to a folder

                        Copying

                                    Copying items to a folder

                                    Copying items from a folder

 

Trash Can

            Deleting information

 

Storage media (Exploring your disk)

            Inserting and finding your disk

            Loading and unloading information from a disk

            Ejecting disk

 

Working with List View

Displaying icon contents

            Selecting multiple contiguous icons

            Selecting multiple noncontiguous icons

 

ExposŽ

            F9: Displays all open windows at once

            F10: Displays all open windows for the current application

            F11: Displays the Desktop

 

Recent Items

            Apple -> Recent Items

 

Info Window

 

Using the Search Field

 

Using File -> Find

 

Working with Search Results

            Opening

            Where the item resides

            Item information

 

Preferences

System Preferences

            Mouse

            Dock Preferences

            Finder Preferences

 

Using Mac Help