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PART 1 GETTING STARTED WITH YOUR iMac |
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Chapter 1 Okay, This Machine Looks Really, Really Weird |
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Intel iMac or M1 iMac -- That Is the Question |
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An Introduction to the Beast |
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Major parts of your major appliance |
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Choosing a Home for Your New Pet |
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Picking the right location |
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Considering the convenience factor |
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Unpacking your iMac For Dummies |
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Connecting cables like a true nerd |
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Discovering All the Cool Things You Can Do |
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Looking forward to fun on the Internet |
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Would you like to play a game? |
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Stuff You Oughta Buy Right Now |
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Chapter 2 Life! Give My iMac Life! |
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Throwing the Big Leaf Switch |
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Mark's Favorite Signs of a Healthy iMac |
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Harriet, It's Already Asking Me Questions! |
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Setting up macOS Monterey |
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Importing Documents and Data from Your Old Mac |
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Manually Importing Documents and Data from Windows |
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Chapter 3 The Basics Behind macOS Monterey |
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Your Own Personal Operating System |
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Check out that Control Center |
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Wait a Second: Where the Heck Are the Mouse Buttons? |
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Launching and Quitting Applications with Aplomb |
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Performing Tricks with Finder Windows |
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Scrolling in and resizing windows |
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Minimizing and restoring windows |
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Moving and zooming windows |
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Juggling Folders and Icons |
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A field observer's guide to icons |
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Moving things from place to place |
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Keystrokes to Fame and Fortune |
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Special keys on the keyboard |
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Using the Finder and application keyboard shortcuts |
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Speeding Things Up with Shortcuts |
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Working with Mission Control |
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Switching Desktops with Spaces |
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Personalizing Your Desktop |
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Taking Control of Your iMac |
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Adding applications and extras to the Dock |
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Keeping track with Stacks |
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All You Really Need to Know about Printing |
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And Just in Case You Need Help |
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The Monterey built-in Help system |
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The Apple web-based support center |
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PART 2 SHAKING HANDS WITH macOS |
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Chapter 4 What's New in Monterey? |
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Hiding Email the iCloud Way |
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Chapter 5 A Nerd's Guide to System Preferences |
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An Explanation -- without Jargon, No Less |
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Locating That Certain Special Setting |
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Popular Preferences Panes Explained |
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The Desktop & Screen Saver pane |
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Mission Control preferences |
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Notifications & Focus preferences |
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Chapter 6 Searching Amidst iMac Chaos |
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How Cool Is That? Discovering What Spotlight Can Do |
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Expanding Your Search Horizons |
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Customizing Spotlight to Your Taste |
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Chapter 7 Putting Common Apps to Work |
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Remind Me to Use Reminders |
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118 | (3) |
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Taking Notes the Monterey Way |
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Staying Current with Notification Center |
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123 | (3) |
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Introducing the Maps Application |
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Getting Directions Over Yonder |
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Creating and Using Guides |
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Using Favorites and Channels |
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PART 3 CONNECTING AND COMMUNICATING |
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Chapter 8 Let's Go on Safari! |
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Pretend You've Never Used This Thing |
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Configuring Your Home Page and Start Page |
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Adding and Using Bookmarks |
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Working with the Reading List |
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Tabs Are Your Browsing Friends |
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Yes, there are such things as bad cookies |
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Banishing pesky iCloud Keychain passwords |
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Avoiding those @*!ˆ%$ pop-up ads |
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Chapter 9 Expanding Your Horizons with iCloud |
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So How Does iCloud Work, Anyway? |
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Moving, Saving, and Opening iCloud Documents |
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Expanding Your Horizons with Sidecar |
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Managing Your iCloud Storage |
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Chapter 10 Creating a Multiuser iMac |
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Once Upon a Time (an Access Fairy Tale) |
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Big-Shot Administrator Stuff |
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Deciding who needs what access |
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I banish thee, mischievous user! |
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Setting up login items and managing access |
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Tackling Mundane Chores for the Multiuser iMac |
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181 | (1) |
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Logging in and out of Monterey For Dummies |
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Interesting stuff about sharing stuff |
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Encrypting your Home folder can be fun |
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Chapter 11 Working Well with Networks |
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What Exactly Is the Network Advantage? |
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Should You Go Wired or Wireless? |
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Be a Pal: Share Your Internet! |
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Using your iMac as a sharing device |
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Using a dedicated Internet-sharing device |
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What Do I Need to Connect? |
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Connecting to the Network |
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Sharing stuff nicely with others |
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Chapter 12 Hooking Up with Handy Helpers |
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Sending Instant Messages Across the Network |
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PART 4 LIVING THE DIGITAL LIFE |
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Chapter 13 The Multimedia Joys of Music and TV |
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What Can I Play in Music? |
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Playing Digital Audio Files |
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Finding songs in your Music library |
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Removing old music from the library |
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Keeping Slim Whitman and Slim Shady Apart: Organizing with Playlists |
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Setting the song information automatically |
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Setting or changing the song information manually |
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Tweaking the Audio for Your Ears |
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A New Kind of Radio Station |
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Tuning in your own stations |
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Radio stations in your playlists |
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Creating a custom Music Radio station |
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iSending iStuff to iPhone and iPad |
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Burning Music to Shiny Plastic Circles |
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Feasting on Music Visuals |
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Exercising Parental Authority |
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Buying Digital Media the Apple Way |
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Chapter 14 Focusing on Photos |
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Working with Images in Photos |
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Organize mode: Organizing and sorting your images |
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Edit mode: Removing and fixing stuff the right way |
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Putting My Photo Stream and iCloud Shared Albums to Work |
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Chapter 15 Making Film History with iMovie |
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Shaking Hands with the iMovie Window |
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A Bird's-Eye View of Moviemaking |
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Importing the Building Blocks |
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Making use of still images |
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Importing and adding audio from all sorts of places |
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Building the Cinematic Basics |
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Adding clips to your movie |
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Removing clips from your movie |
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Reordering clips in your movie |
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Transitions for the masses |
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Even Gone with the Wind had titles |
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Adding maps and backgrounds |
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Creating an Honest-to-Goodness Movie Trailer |
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Browsing Your Video Library |
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Sharing Your Finished Classic |
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Chapter 16 Recording Your Hits with GarageBand |
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Shaking Hands with Your Band |
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Resizing, repeating, and moving loops |
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Using the Arrangement track |
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Tweaking the settings for a track |
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Creating song files in Music |
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PART 5 GETTING PRODUCTIVE WITH YOUR iMac |
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Chapter 17 Desktop Publishing with Pages |
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Creating a New Pages Document |
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306 | (1) |
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Opening an Existing Pages Document |
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307 | (1) |
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Entering and Editing Text |
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310 | (1) |
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Using Text, Shapes, and Graphics Boxes |
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310 | (1) |
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The Three Amigos: Cut, Copy, and Paste |
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Pasting from the Clipboard |
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311 | (1) |
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Formatting Text the Easy Way |
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312 | (2) |
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Adding a Background Shape |
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Are You Sure about That Spelling? |
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316 | (1) |
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Setting Your Font Defaults to Speed Things Up |
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316 | (1) |
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Printing Your Pages Documents |
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Sharing That Poster with Others |
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318 | (1) |
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Chapter 18 Creating Spreadsheets with Numbers |
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Before You Launch Numbers |
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320 | (1) |
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Creating a New Numbers Document |
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320 | (1) |
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Opening an Existing Spreadsheet File |
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321 | (1) |
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322 | (1) |
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Exploring the Numbers Window |
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323 | (1) |
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Navigating and Selecting Cells in a Spreadsheet |
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324 | (1) |
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Entering and Editing Data in a Spreadsheet |
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325 | (1) |
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Selecting the Correct Number Format |
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326 | (1) |
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Aligning Cell Text Just So |
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327 | (1) |
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328 | (1) |
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Inserting and Deleting Rows and Columns |
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The Formula Is Your Friend |
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Adding Visual Punch with a Chart |
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Printing Your Spreadsheet |
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333 | (2) |
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Chapter 19 Building Presentations with Keynote |
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Creating a New Keynote Project |
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336 | (1) |
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Opening a Keynote Presentation |
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337 | (1) |
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338 | (1) |
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340 | (1) |
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Working with Text, Shapes, and Graphics Boxes |
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340 | (1) |
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Adding and Editing Slide Text |
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341 | (1) |
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Formatting Slide Text for the Perfect Look |
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342 | (1) |
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Using Presenter's Notes in Your Project |
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342 | (1) |
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Every Good Presentation Needs Media |
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343 | (1) |
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Adding a Background Shape |
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344 | (1) |
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Creating Your Keynote Slideshow |
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344 | (2) |
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Printing Your Slides and Notes |
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PART 6 THE NECESSARY EVILS: TROUBLESHOOTING, UPGRADING, AND MAINTAINING |
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349 | (44) |
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Chapter 20 It Just Sits There |
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351 | (14) |
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Repeat after Me: Yes, I Am a Tech! |
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352 | (1) |
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Step-by-Step iMac Troubleshooting |
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352 | (1) |
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The number-one rule: Reboot! |
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353 | (1) |
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Special keys that can come in handy |
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All hail Disk Utility, the troubleshooter's friend |
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356 | (2) |
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358 | (1) |
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Mark's iMac Troubleshooting Tree |
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359 | (5) |
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Okay, I Kicked It, and It Still Won't Work |
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364 | (1) |
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Local service, at your service |
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Chapter 21 I Want to Add Stuff |
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366 | (1) |
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Figuring out how much memory you have |
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366 | (1) |
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Installing memory modules |
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367 | (4) |
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Can I Upgrade My Internal Drive? |
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371 | (1) |
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Consider your external options |
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372 | (1) |
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373 | (1) |
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Weighing Attractive Add-Ons |
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374 | (1) |
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Audio hardware and MIDI controllers |
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Chapter 22 Tackling the Housekeeping |
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377 | (16) |
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Cleaning Unseemly Data Deposits |
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377 | (1) |
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Managing your storage in macOS (or cleaning things the elegant way) |
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378 | (1) |
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Getting dirty (or cleaning things the manual way) |
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379 | (3) |
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Using a commercial cleanup tool |
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382 | (1) |
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383 | (1) |
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384 | (1) |
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Backing up to an external drive |
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384 | (1) |
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384 | (2) |
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Putting Things Right with Time Machine |
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386 | (2) |
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388 | (1) |
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Automating Those Mundane Chores |
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388 | (1) |
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Creating an application in Automator |
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389 | (1) |
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Creating an Automator login item |
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390 | (1) |
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Updating macOS Automatically |
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391 | (2) |
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393 | (16) |
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Chapter 23 Ten Ways to Speed Up Your iMac |
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395 | (6) |
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Nothing Works Like a Shot of Memory |
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396 | (1) |
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Hold a Conversation with Your iMac |
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396 | (1) |
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397 | (1) |
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Keep Your Desktop Background Simple |
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397 | (1) |
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Column Mode Is for Power Users |
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398 | (1) |
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Make the Dock Do Your Bidding |
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398 | (1) |
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It All Started with Keyboard Shortcuts |
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399 | (1) |
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Hey, You Tweaked Your Finder! |
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399 | (1) |
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Keep in Touch with Your Recent Past |
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400 | (1) |
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Go Where the Going Is Good |
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400 | (1) |
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Chapter 24 Ten Things to Avoid Like the Plague |
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401 | (8) |
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402 | (1) |
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Don't Rely on a Single Password |
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403 | (1) |
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Do You Really Want a Submerged Keyboard? |
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404 | (1) |
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Don't Use Antiquated Utility Software |
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404 | (1) |
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Don't Endorse Software Piracy |
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405 | (1) |
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Call It the Forbidden Account |
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405 | (1) |
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Don't Settle for a Surge Suppressor |
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406 | (1) |
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Refurbished Hardware Is No Deal at All |
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406 | (1) |
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iMacs Appreciate iCleanliness |
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407 | (2) |
| Index |
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409 | |
