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Part 1 TIE MYSELF DOWN WITH A DESKTOP? PREPOSTEROUS! |
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Chapter 1 Hey, It Really Does Have Everything I Need |
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An Overview of Your Mac Laptop |
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The parts you probably recognize |
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Don't forget the parts you can't see |
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Look, Ma, no moving parts! |
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Whoa! Where's my familiar USB port? |
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Sharing a CD or DVD drive |
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Location, Location, Location! |
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Unpacking and Connecting Your Laptop |
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Unpacking for the road warrior |
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Great -- a Lecture about Handling My Laptop |
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An Overview of Mac Software Goodness |
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What comes with my laptop? |
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Connecting to the Internet from your lap |
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Other Stuff That Nearly Everyone Wants |
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Chapter 2 Turning On Your Portable Powerhouse |
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Mark's Favorite Signs of a Healthy Laptop |
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You Won't Lecture Me about Batteries, Will You? |
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Setting Up and Registering Your Laptop |
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Your iCIoud account is your friend |
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Importing Stuff from Another Mac |
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Importing Stuff from Windows (If You Must) |
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Chapter 3 The MacBook Owner's Introduction to macOS Big Sur |
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Your Own Personal Operating System |
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Check out that Control Center |
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There's no food on this menu |
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The Finder menu bar is your friend |
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There's always room for one more window |
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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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Keys and Keyboard Shortcuts 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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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 MacBook |
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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 Big Sur built-in Help system |
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The Apple web-based support center |
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Part 2 SHAKING HANDS WITH MACOS BIG SUR |
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Chapter 4 What's New in macOS Big Sur? |
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Introducing the Control Center |
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The Return of the Widgets |
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Your Guide to the Perfect Trip |
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Messages Adds Effects, Images, and Pins? |
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Becoming One with Your Battery |
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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 preferences |
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Chapter 6 Sifting Through Your Stuff in Doing a Basic Search |
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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 Using Reminders, Notes, Notifications, and Maps |
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Remind Me to Use Reminders |
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Taking Notes the Big Sur Way |
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Staying Current with Notification Center |
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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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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 iCIoud Keychain passwords |
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Avoiding those @*!^%$ op-up ads |
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Chapter 9 Icloud Is Made for MacBooks |
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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 Your Laptop Goes Multiuser |
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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 Laptop |
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Logging in and out of Big Sur 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 MacBook 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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Playing Buck Rogers with FaceTime |
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Sending Instant Messages Across the Network |
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Chapter 12 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 13 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 Photo Sharing to Work |
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Chapter 14 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 15 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 AND MAINTAINING YOUR MACBOOK |
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Chapter 16 Desktop Publishing with Pages |
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Creating a New Pages Document |
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Opening an Existing Pages Document |
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Entering and Editing Text |
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Using Text, Shapes, and Graphics Boxes |
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The Three Amigos: Cut, Copy, and Paste |
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Pasting from the Clipboard |
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Formatting Text the Easy Way |
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Adding a Background Shape |
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Are You Sure about That Spelling? |
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Set Your Font Defaults and Speed Things Up |
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Printing Your Pages Documents |
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Sharing That Poster with Others |
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Chapter 17 Creating Spreadsheets with Numbers |
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Before You Launch Numbers |
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306 | (1) |
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Creating a New Numbers Document |
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306 | (1) |
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Opening an Existing Spreadsheet File |
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307 | (1) |
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Exploring the Numbers Window |
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Navigating and Selecting Cells in a Spreadsheet |
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310 | (1) |
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Entering and Editing Data in a Spreadsheet |
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Selecting the Correct Number Format |
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Aligning Cell Text Just So |
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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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Chapter 18 Building Presentations with Keynote |
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Creating a New Keynote Project |
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Opening a Keynote Presentation |
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324 | (1) |
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Working with Text, Shapes, and Graphics Boxes |
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326 | (1) |
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Adding and Editing Slide Text |
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Formatting Slide Text for the Perfect Look |
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Using Presenter's Notes in Your Project |
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Every Good Presentation Needs Media |
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Adding a Background Shape |
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Creating Your Keynote Slideshow |
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Printing Your Slides and Notes |
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Chapter 19 When Good Mac Laptops Go Bad |
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Repeat after Me: Yes, I Am a Tech! |
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Step-by-Step Laptop Troubleshooting |
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337 | (1) |
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The number-one rule: Reboot! |
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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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Using Mark's MacBook Troubleshooting Tree |
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Step 1 Investigate recent changes |
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Step 4 Check your Internet and network connections |
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Step 7 Check your login items |
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Step 8 Turn off your screen saver |
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Step 9 Run System Information |
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Okay, I Kicked It, and It Still Won't Work |
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Local service, at your service |
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Figuring out how Boot Camp works |
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Chapter 20 Adding New Stuff to Your Laptop |
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355 | (12) |
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356 | (1) |
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Figuring out how much memory you have |
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356 | (1) |
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Installing memory modules |
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Considering an Internal Drive Upgrade? |
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Ponder your external options |
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361 | (3) |
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364 | (1) |
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A List of Dreamy Laptop Add-Ons |
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Chapter 21 Tackling the Housekeeping |
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367 | (14) |
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Cleaning Unseemly Data Deposits |
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368 | (1) |
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Getting dirty (cleaning things the manual way) |
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368 | (3) |
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Using a commercial cleanup tool |
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371 | (1) |
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372 | (1) |
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Putting things right with Time Machine |
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374 | (2) |
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376 | (1) |
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Automating Those Mundane Chores |
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377 | (2) |
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Updating macOS Automatically |
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379 | (2) |
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381 | (18) |
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Chapter 22 Ten Laptop Rules to Follow |
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383 | (8) |
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Keep Your Laptop in a Bag |
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383 | (1) |
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384 | (1) |
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Keep Tabs on Your MacBook |
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385 | (1) |
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Keepeth Thy Drive Encrypted |
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385 | (1) |
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386 | (1) |
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Take a Surge Protector with You |
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387 | (1) |
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Use Power-Saving Features |
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388 | (1) |
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Use an External Keyboard and Mouse |
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Not Again! What Is It with You and Backing Up? |
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Chapter 23 Ten Things to Avoid Like the Plague |
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391 | (8) |
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392 | (1) |
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392 | (1) |
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The Twin Terrors: Viruses and Malware |
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393 | (1) |
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394 | (1) |
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Antiquated Utility Software |
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394 | (1) |
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|
394 | (1) |
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395 | (1) |
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Unsecured Wireless Connections |
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395 | (1) |
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396 | (1) |
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397 | (2) |
| Index |
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399 | |
