Paul McFedries

Contents at a Glance

Introduction

Book 1: Getting Started with Your Mac

Chapter 1: From Go to Whoa: Getting to Know Your Mac

Chapter 2: Getting Acquainted with the Mac User Interface

Chapter 3: Getting Your Mac Online

Chapter 4: Fiddling with Files and Folders

Chapter 5: Managing Apps on the Dock, Launchpad, and Desktop

Chapter 6: Changing How Your Mac Looks, Sounds, and Feels

Chapter 7: Making Your Mac More Accessible

Book 2: Using the Internet

Chapter 1: Wandering the Web

Chapter 2: Order Out of Chaos: Organizing Web Pages

Chapter 3: Exchanging Messages with Mail

Chapter 4: Getting More Out of Mail

Chapter 5: Chatting with Messages and FaceTime

Chapter 6: Exploring the World with Maps

Book 3: Beyond the Basics

Chapter 1: Backing Up and Restoring Your Data

Chapter 2: Protecting Your Mac against Local and Remote Threats

Chapter 3: Sharing Your Mac

Chapter 4: Networking Your Mac

Chapter 5: Sharing Files and Resources on a Network

Chapter 6: Maintenance and Troubleshooting

Book 4: Using Your Mac as a Media Center

Chapter 1: Tuning In and Listening with Music

Chapter 2: Enjoying Podcasts, News, and TV

Chapter 3: Reading and Listening to Books on Your Mac

Chapter 4: Picture Perfect: Working with Photos

Book 5: Taking Care of Business

Chapter 1: Managing Contacts

Chapter 2: Tracking Events and Tasks with Calendar and Reminders

Chapter 3: Crafting Fancy-Schmancy Documents with Pages

Chapter 4: Producing Persuasive Presentations with Keynote

Chapter 5: Crunching with Numbers

Chapter 6: Getting More Out of Pages, Keynote, and Numbers

Table of Contents

Introduction

About This Book

Foolish Assumptions

Icons Used in This Book

Beyond the Book

Where to Go from Here

Book 1: Getting Started with Your Mac

Chapter 1: From Go to Whoa: Getting to Know Your Mac

The Parts Department: Touring Your Mac’s Hardware

The ports report

Locating your Mac’s ports

Connecting stuff to your Mac

Cranking Up Your Mac

Making Your Mac Do Your Bidding: Mouse, Trackpad, and Keyboard Ba-sics

Maneuvering the mouse

Getting a feel for the trackpad

Comprehending the keyboard

Turning Off Your Mac

Nighty-night: Putting your Mac to sleep

Quittin’ time: Shutting down your Mac

A fresh beginning: Restarting your Mac

Chapter 2: Getting Acquainted with the Mac User Interface

Getting to Know the Desktop’s Doodads

Exploring the menu bar

The Dock

The Finder

Looking at Menus, Dialogs, and Windows

Getting the hang of menu commands

Dealing with dialogs

Messing with windows

Getting Acquainted with Siri

Enabling Siri

Getting Siri’s attention

Getting Help

Chapter 3: Getting Your Mac Online

Introducing Your Mac to the Internet

Getting online by connecting your Mac directly to your broadband modem

Getting online using a wireless broadband connection

Establishing Your Apple Identity

Signing in with an existing Apple ID

Forging a new Apple ID

Maintaining your Apple ID

Storing Your Data in iCloud

Configuring iCloud preferences

Syncing with your other devices

Using the iCloud website

Adding Even More Accounts

Adding an account

Gathering your account information

Configuring your account

Chapter 4: Fiddling with Files and Folders

Getting to Know the Finder

Getting to Know the Finder

Handling devices

Understanding folders

Setting Finder preferences

Navigating Your Mac’s Devices and Folders

Opening a folder

Keeping tabs on multiple folders

Jumping to a specific folder

Jumping back and forth

Moving to a higher folder

Following the folder path

Taking in the View: Working with the Finder’s Views

Using Icon view

Using List view

Using Column view

Using Gallery view

Changing your view options

Using Quick Look to sneakily peek at the contents of a file

Organizing 101: Forging Folders

Creating a folder from the Finder menu

Creating a folder from Save or Save As

Playing Tag: Classify Files and Folders for Quick Access

Setting tag preferences

Tagging existing files and folders

Tagging new files

Finding your tagged files

Fiddling with Files and Folders

Selecting stuff in the Finder

Renaming files and folders

Copying a file or folder

Moving a file or folder

Copying or moving multiple files

Zip, Zip: Archiving Files and Folders

Searching for Lost Files

Running a Spotlight search

Running a Finder search

Spotlight Preferences

Using Smart Folders

Creating a Smart Folder with Spotlight

Deleting a File or Folder

Retrieving a file or folder from the Trash

Emptying the Trash

Chapter 5: Managing Apps on the Dock, Launchpad, and Desktop

Firing Up an App

Running an app from the Dock

Running an app from Finder

Running an app with Spotlight

Running an app from Launchpad

Running an app you used recently

Flitting from One App to Another

Working in Split-View Mode

Quittin’ Time: Shutting Down an App

Closing a document

Quitting an app

Force-quitting an app

Alter Egos: Creating Aliases for Documents

Messing with Dock Icons

Adding file and folder aliases to the Dock

Rearranging icons on the Dock

Removing icons from the Dock

Organizing Multiple Desktops with Spaces

Creating Desktops

Switching Desktops

Moving app windows to different Desktops

Setting Mission Control preferences

Welcoming New Apps to Your Mac

Shopping in the App Store

Setting up a payment method from the App Store

Downloading apps from the App Store

Updating Apps and System Software

Updating your apps

Updating macOS

Automating the update process

Uninstalling Apps

Paying Attention to App Security

Chapter 6: Changing How Your Mac Looks, Sounds, and Feels

Navigating System and App Preferences

Messing with the system preferences

Tweaking app preferences

Unlocking preferences

Doctoring the Desktop and Screen Saver

Trying out a new Desktop background image

Setting up a screen saver

Remodeling the Display

Adjusting the screen brightness

Setting the screen resolution

Using Night Shift

Repainting the screen colors

Two monitors are better than one: mirroring or extending the dis-play

Renovating the Dock, Menu Bar, and Control Center

Setting the Date and Time

Fine-Tuning Sounds

Customizing your Mac’s sound effects

Configuring sound output and input

Putting the “No” in Notifications

Configuring notification preferences

Getting your attention back with Focus

Chapter 7: Making Your Mac More Accessible

Mitigating Vision Limitations

Compensating for Hearing Limitations

Overcoming Physical Challenges

Easing keyboard limitations

Making the mouse and trackpad easier to use

Getting on Speaking Terms with Your Mac

Setting up the microphone

Setting up Speakable Items

Book 2: Using the Internet

Chapter 1: Wandering the Web

Surf’s Up: Browsing Websites

Surfing techniques

Distraction-free reading with Reader view

One-window surfing: browsing with tabs

Setting your Safari homepage

Scouring web page text

Chapter 2: Order Out of Chaos: Organizing Web Pages

Saving sites for subsequent surfs: managing bookmarks

Setting up a web page reading list

Accessing links shared with you via text

Allowing Safari to Store Passwords, Credit Cards, and Other Personal In-fo

Choosing the types of personal info Safari can store

Adding credit cards

Enhancing online security and privacy

Browsing privately

Setting security and privacy preferences

Checking out Safari’s password security recommendations

“Check This Out”: Sharing a Web Page

From Out There to In Here: Downloading Files

Chapter 3: Exchanging Messages with Mail

Inspecting the Mail Window

Shipping Out Emails

Creating and sending an original message

Replying to a message

Forwarding a message

Customizing some useful sending settings

Including a file along for the ride

Attaching a photo to your message

Putting your best foot forward: checking spelling and grammar

Later, dude: scheduling a send

Back from the brink: undoing a send

Receiving and Reading Email

Retrieving email

Customizing a few handy receiving settings

Reading email

Viewing and saving file attachments

Adding an email address to Contacts

Adding an email contact to your VIPs list

Chapter 4: Getting More Out of Mail

Finding Message Needles in Mailbox Haystacks: Searching Your Email

Getting Mail to Remind You to Deal with A Message

Creating A Mailbox to Store Related Messages

Organizing On Autopilot: Creating Smart Mailboxes

Organizing On Autopilot, Part 2: Creating Rules

Dealing with Junk Email

Filtering junk email

Training Mail to recognize junk

Blocking bad senders

Deleting or Archiving a Message

Taking a message out to the Trash

Retrieving messages from the Trash mailbox

Emptying the Trash folder

Archiving a message

Chapter 5: Chatting with Messages and FaceTime

Getting the Messages Party Started

Launching Messages

iMessage versus SMS/MMS: What's the Difference?

Forwarding SMS/MMS messages to and from your Mac via your iPh-one

Tweaking Messages to suit your texting style

Texting and More with Messages

Initiating a text chat

Getting fancy with photos, emojis, and other message effects

The more the merrier: setting up a group text

Messing with messages

Sharing a screen during a text conversation

Sending a file along with a text message

Making Calls with FaceTime

Signing in to FaceTime

Making a call with FaceTime

Initiating an audio or a video call from Messages

Receiving a FaceTime call

Chapter 6: Exploring the World with Maps

Wherever You Go, There You Are

Enabling location services for Maps

Launching Maps

“You are here”: Showing your location on the map

Navigating Maps

Navigating Your World

Mapping points of interest

Sharing what you find

Dropping a pin

Can I get there from here? Asking for directions

Book 3: Beyond the Basics

Chapter 1: Backing Up and Restoring Your Data

Using iCloud to Store Your Data

Blasting into the Past: Backing Up with Time Machine

Setting up Time Machine

Skipping files you don’t want to back up

Recovering files and folders

Understanding Versions

Restoring your entire backup

Moving Your Backup from an Old Mac to a New Mac

Chapter 2: Protecting Your Mac against Local and Remote Threats

Battening Down Your Your Mac’s Hatches with a Password

Changing your password

Safety first: locking your Mac

Applying password protection

Another layer of security: Adding two-factor authentication to your Ap-ple ID

Securing Your Mac with the Touch of a Finger: Using Touch ID

Encrypting Data with FileVault

Setting up FileVault

Turning off FileVault

Blocking the Bad Guys with a Firewall

Cranking Up Your Privacy Settings

Chapter 3: Sharing Your Mac

Populating Your Mac with Multiple Users

Activating the Guest account

Creating a new user account

Switching user accounts

Deleting a user account

All in the Family: Organizing Family Sharing

Setting up Family Sharing

Configuring what gets shared

The kids are alright: creating a child account for Family Sharing

Setting a family member as a parent or guardian

Removing a family member

Using Screen Time to Achieve Mac-Life Balance

Enabling Screen Time

Displaying Screen Time settings

Monitoring Mac usage

Setting up a downtime schedule

Configuring time limits for apps and websites

Setting communication limits

Activating communication safety

Specifying apps to always allow

Applying content and privacy restrictions

Chapter 4: Networking Your Mac

Creating a Wired Network

“Look, Ma, No Wires!” Setting Up a Wireless Network

Connecting Devices Using the Magic of Bluetooth

Working with Bluetooth Devices

Exchanging Files Using Bluetooth

Chapter 5: Sharing Files and Resources on a Network

Sharing Files and Folders with Folks from Afar

Sharing files using AirDrop

Sharing folders using a network

Sharing Printers

Adding a shared network printer

Adding a shared Windows network printer

Sharing your printer with the network

Sharing Your Screen

Enabling screen sharing

Starting a screen-sharing session with another Mac

Chapter 6: Maintenance and Troubleshooting

Routine Mac Maintenance

Emptying the Trash

Cleaning up your desktop

Watching hard drive free space

Deleting unneeded files

Uninstalling unused apps

Checking the hard drive for errors with First Aid

Removing login items

Cycling your Mac notebook battery

Shutting Down a Crashed App

General Hardware Troubleshooting Techniques

Basic checklist

Restarting your Mac

Repairing the hard drive

Mac Hardware Problems

Your Mac won’t start

Your Mac tells you that you don’t have enough memory

Your Mac runs slowly

Your mouse or keyboard doesn’t work

Your display is garbled

Book 4: Using Your Mac as a Media Center

Chapter 1: Tuning In and Listening with Music

Getting Comfy with the Music App

Touring the sidebar

Finding your way around the toolbar

Checking out the content area

Playing Your Music

Importing digital audio files

Searching your Music library

Streaming music

Playing digital audio files

Fiddling with a few playback settings

Curating Your Music with Playlists

Setting up an ordinary playlist

Setting up a smart playlist

Setting up a Genius playlist

Listening to the Radio

Shopping for Music at the iTunes Store

Chapter 2: Enjoying Podcasts, News, and TV

Finding and Playing Podcasts

Exploring podcasts

Examining the sidebar

Finding your way around the toolbar

Checking out the content area

Following a podcast

Reading the News: Extra, Extra, Read All about It!

Reading the daily news

Following a channel or topic

Saving and sharing stories

Setting News settings

Watching TV on Your Mac

Chapter 3: Reading and Listening to Books on Your Mac

Understanding E-book Formats

Launching the Books App

Touring the Sidebar

Apple Books

Library

My Collections

Browsing the Book Store

Adding E-books and PDFs from Other Sources

Reading by Screen Light

Now Hear This: Listening to Audiobooks

Browsing the Audiobook Store

Listening to and navigating an audiobook

Chapter 4: Picture Perfect: Working with Photos

Understanding Digital Photography

Transferring Digital Images to the Mac

Importing photos using the Photos app

Moving photos from other folders into Photos

Organizing Your Photo Library

Tagging images

Using the Keyword Manager

Manually adding information to photos

Creating a Smart Album

Organizing albums with folders

Deleting photos, albums, and folders

Mapping your images

Finding images

Creating a slideshow

Capturing Photos with Photo Booth

Editing Photos with Photos

Sharing Photos

Printing photos

Sending photos in a message

Creating a shared album

Book 5: Taking Care of Business

Chapter 1: Managing Contacts

Setting Up Contacts

Viewing your contacts

Designing your contact card template

Adding contacts

Messing with Your Contacts

Searching contacts

Editing a card

Deleting a contact

Making a list

Sharing Your Contacts

Sending one contact at a time

Exporting multiple cards

Printing your Contacts

Chapter 2: Tracking Events and Tasks with Calendar and Reminders

Getting Acquainted with Calendar

Getting to know the Calendar toolbar

Switching Calendar views

Navigating the calendar

Working with Multiple Calendars

Creating a new calendar

Adding calendars from other accounts

Subscribing to online calendars

Importing calendar data

Renaming and deleting calendars

It’s a Date: Creating an Event

Creating a regular event

Creating an all-day event

Editing an Event

Tweaking an event’s times using drag-and-drop

Changing the details of an event

Responding to event invitations

Deleting an event

Keeping Your Events Organized

Color-coding events

Selectively hiding events

Checking today’s events

Checking events on a specific date

Searching for an event

Exporting Calendar data

Sharing your calendars

Getting Things Done with Reminders

Setting a reminder for a specific time

Setting a reminder for a specific location

Setting a reminder for when you message someone

Creating a new list

Completing a reminder

Deleting a reminder

Setting the default Reminders list

Chapter 3: Crafting Fancy-Schmancy Documents with Pages

Getting a Head Start with Document Templates

Creating a new document from a template

Replacing placeholder text

Replacing placeholder photos and graphics

Inserting pages or sections

Moving around your document

Messing Around with Text

Editing text

Formatting text

Adjusting line spacing, justification, and margins

Corralling Text Into Text Boxes

Creating a text box

Moving a text box

Resizing a text box

Uniting text boxes

Faster Formatting with Styles

Taking advantage of paragraph styles

Applying an image style

Applying a text box style

Crafting Charts and Tables in Pages

Adding a chart

Adding a table

Adding shapes

Bringing your objects to heel

Wrapping text around an object

Polishing Your Document

Spell-checking a document

Finding and replacing text

Exporting to a Different File Format

Chapter 4: Producing Persuasive Presentations with Keynote

Getting Your Presentation Off the Ground

Choosing a theme and saving your presentation

Opening an existing file

Finding your way around Keynote

Adding slides

Manipulating Text

Entering text

Inserting text boxes

Editing text

Formatting text and text boxes

Adding Shapes, Charts, and Tables

Inserting predefined shapes

Adding a chart

Adding a table

Adding Media Files

Adding sound

Adding photos or movies

Rearranging Slides

Creating a group of slides

Deleting a slide

Skipping a slide

Creating Transitions and Effects

Creating a slide transition

Creating text and graphic effects

Adding hyperlinks to your presentation

Editing Slide Layouts to Customize Themes

Polishing Your Presentation

Previewing a presentation

Rehearsing a presentation

Preparing for your big event

Controlling your presentation remotely

Letting others run your presentation

Chapter 5: Crunching with Numbers

Touring the Numbers Window

Building a Spreadsheet: The Basics

Creating a Spreadsheet with Your Bare Hands

Creating a new spreadsheet with a template

Opening an existing file

Messing Around with Sheets

Renaming a sheet

Adding a sheet

Deleting a sheet

Adding or removing a table

Adding and removing rows and columns

Selecting table items

Changing the appearance of a table

Inserting headers and resizing rows and columns

Populating Tables with Data

Applying a data format

Formatting table data

Building formulas to calculate results

Conditionally formatting data entry cells

Sorting data

Deleting data

Visualizing data with a chart

Renaming tables and charts

Sharing Your Spreadsheet

Exporting a spreadsheet

Sharing files directly from Numbers

Chapter 6: Getting More Out of Pages, Keynote, and Numbers

Collaborating with Colleagues

Inserting Media from Other Sources

Copying and Pasting

Modifying Photos

Masking a photo

Making parts of a photo transparent

Using Adjust Image

Adding Comments

Finding More Templates