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Work, play, connect, and share with the ultimate tour to macOS 'X'

macOS 'X' For Dummies is the ultimate tour guide to the Mac operating system, written by Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVitus himself! Whether you're upgrading your trusty old MacBook or venturing into new territory for the very first time, this easy to use guide will get you up and running quickly. It's all here: navigation, preferences, file management, networking, music and movies, and so much more. From the absolute basics to advanced techniques, this book shows you everything you need to know to turn your Mac into an extension of your brain. Concerned about security? Need to troubleshoot an issue? Want to make your Mac perform even better? Let Dr. Mac walk you through it with clear explanations and a little bit of humor. Read this book beginning-to-end for a complete tutorial, or dip in and out as needed when things take an unexpected turn; if you have macOS questions, Dr. Mac has the answers you need.

macOS has powered Macs since 2001. Each free annual update improves the system's functionality, and typically offers a few new tools and fixes old issues. If you need to learn your way around this year's update quickly, easily, and thoroughly, this book is for you.

  • Get organized and find your way around the interface
  • Customize your Mac's look, "feel," and behavior
  • Get connected, get online, and into the cloud
  • Access your movies and music, back up your data, and more!

Famous for its reliability and usability, macOS offers the sort of streamlined tools and operations you won't find anywhere else. macOS 'X' For Dummies helps you discover just how much your Mac can do for you.

Introduction 1(4)
About This Book
1(2)
Foolish Assumptions
3(1)
Icons Used in This Book
3(1)
Beyond the Book
4(1)
Where to Go from Here
4(1)
Part 1: macOS Basics 5(58)
Chapter 1 macOS High Sierra 101 (Prerequisites: None)
7(16)
Gnawing to the Core of macOS
8(2)
A Safety Net for the Absolute Beginner (or Any User)
10(8)
Turning the dang thing on What you should see on startup
11(2)
Shutting down properly
13(2)
A few things you should definitely not do with your Mac
15(1)
Point-and-click boot camp
16(2)
Not Just a Beatles Movie: Help and the Help Menu
18(5)
Chapter 2 Desktop and Windows and Menus (Oh My!)
23(22)
Touring Finder and Its Desktop
24(1)
Anatomy of a Window
25(7)
Top o' the window to ya!
27(2)
A scroll new world
29(1)
(Hyper)active windows
30(2)
Dialog Dealie-Boppers
32(7)
Working with Windows
34(1)
Opening and closing windows
34(1)
Resizing windows and window panes
35(1)
Moving windows
35(1)
Shuffling windows
36(3)
Menu Basics
39(6)
The ever-changing menu bar
39(1)
Contextual menus: They're so contextual!
40(1)
Recognizing disabled options
41(1)
Navigating submenus
42(1)
Under the Apple menu tree
42(2)
Using keyboard shortcut commands
44(1)
Chapter 3 What's Up, Dock?
45(18)
A Quick Introduction to Your Dock
46(8)
The default icons of the dock
46(3)
Trash talkin'
49(2)
Opening application menus on the dock
51(2)
Reading dock icon body language
53(1)
Opening files from the dock
53(1)
Customizing Your Dock
54(11)
Adding dock icons
54(2)
Removing an icon from the dock
56(1)
Resizing the dock
57(1)
What should you put on your dock?
57(2)
Setting your dock preferences
59(4)
Part 2: How Stuff Works 63(100)
Chapter 4 Delving Deeper into Finder and Its Desktop
65(32)
Introducing Finder and Its Minions: The Desktop and Icons
65(8)
Introducing the desktop
66(2)
Bellying up to the toolbar
68(3)
Figuring out what an icon is
71(1)
Identifying your Finder icons in the wild
72(1)
Aliases Are Awesome!
73(3)
Creating aliases
74(1)
Deleting aliases
75(1)
Hunting down an alias's parent
75(1)
The View(s) from a Window
76(6)
Moving through folders fast in Column view
76(2)
Perusing in Icon view
78(1)
Listless? Try touring folders in List view
78(2)
You gotta go with the flow
80(1)
What's next on the (View) menu?
81(1)
Finder on the Menu
82(6)
The actual Finder menu
82(3)
Like a road map: The current folder's pop-up menu
85(1)
Going places with the Go menu
86(2)
Customizing Finder Windows
88(4)
Adding folders to the sidebar
88(1)
Setting Finder preferences
89(3)
Digging for Icon Data in the Info Window
92(5)
Chapter 5 Having It Your Way
97(22)
Introducing System Preferences
97(3)
Putting a Picture on the Desktop
100(1)
Setting Up a Screen Saver
101(2)
Putting Widgets on the Dashboard
103(3)
Translation
105(1)
Flight Tracker
105(1)
Giving Buttons, Menus, and Windows a Makeover
106(3)
Adjusting the Keyboard, Mouse, Trackpad, and Other Hardware
109(8)
Keyboard
109(5)
Mouse
114(1)
Bluetooth
115(1)
Trackpad (notebooks and desktops with a Magic Trackpad)
116(1)
Styling Your Sound
117(2)
Changing sound effects
118(1)
Choosing output and input options
118(1)
Chapter 6 The Care and Feeding of Files and Folders
119(38)
A Quick Primer on Finding Files
120(1)
Understanding the macOS Folder Structure
120(9)
Understanding nested folders
121(2)
From the top: The Computer folder
123(1)
Peeking into the Applications folder
123(1)
Visiting the Library folders
124(1)
Let it be: The System folder
125(1)
There's no place like Home
125(2)
Your personal library card
127(2)
Saving Your Document Before It's Too Late
129(9)
Stepping through a basic save
131(5)
Save As versus Duplicate: Different names for the same result
136(2)
Open, Sez Me
138(5)
With drag-and-drop
139(1)
With a Quick Look
140(1)
When your Mac can't open a file
140(1)
With the application of your choice
141(2)
Organizing Your Stuff in Folders
143(7)
Files versus folders
144(1)
Organizing your stuff with subfolders
144(2)
Creating new folders
146(1)
Navigating with spring-loaded folders
147(1)
Smart folders
148(2)
Shuffling Files and Folders
150(5)
Moving files and folders
150(1)
Selecting multiple icons
151(2)
Playing the icon name game: Renaming icons
153(1)
Compressing files
154(1)
Getting rid of icons
154(1)
The Incredible iCloud Drive
155(2)
Chapter 7 Comprehending the macOS Clipboard
157(6)
Introducing the Clipboard
157(1)
Copying Files and Folders
158(2)
Pasting from the Clipboard
160(1)
High Sierra's Universal Clipboard
160(3)
Part 3: Getting Things Done 163(54)
Chapter 8 Four Terrific Timesaving Tools
165(18)
With a Quick Look
166(3)
Share and share alike with the Share menu
168(1)
Slide into Slideshow (full-screen) mode
169(1)
Spotlight on Finding Files and Folders Faster
169(4)
Using the search box in Finder windows
170(2)
Using the Spotlight menu and window
172(1)
Blast Off with Mission Control
173(7)
The Mission Control pane: It's painless
173(3)
Hot corners!
176(1)
Mission Control's Spaces from 30,000 feet (an overview)
177(2)
Getting around in space(s)
179(1)
Launchpad: The Place for Applications
180(3)
Chapter 9 Organizing Your Life
183(16)
Keeping Track with Calendar
184(6)
Navigating Calendar views
184(1)
Creating calendars
185(1)
Deleting a calendar
186(1)
Creating and managing events
187(3)
Reminders: Protection Against Forgetting
190(2)
Getting started with Reminders
190(1)
To do or not to do: Setting reminders
191(1)
Everything You Need to Know about Notification Center
192(3)
Use Notes for Making Notes
195(4)
Chapter 10 Siri-ously!
199(6)
What Siri Can Do for You
199(2)
Working with Siri
201(1)
Making Siri Your Own
202(3)
Chapter 11 Maps Are Where It's At
205(12)
Finding your current location with Maps
205(1)
Finding a person, place, or thing
206(2)
Views, zooms, and pans
208(1)
Maps and Contacts
209(1)
Timesaving map tools: Favorites, Recents, and Contacts
210(2)
Smart map tricks
212(5)
Part 4: Getting Along With Others 217(88)
Chapter 12 (Inter)Networking
219(18)
Getting Connected to the Internet
220(3)
Your Internet service provider and you
220(1)
Plugging in your Internet-connection settings
221(2)
Browsing the Web with Safari
223(10)
Owning your toolbar
224(2)
Using the Safari sidebar
226(4)
Using the terrific Top Sites page
230(1)
Searching with Google
231(2)
Checking out Help Center
233(1)
Audio and Video Calls with FaceTime
233(4)
Chapter 13 Dealing with People
237(10)
Collecting Your Contacts
237(10)
Adding contacts
238(2)
Importing contacts from other programs
240(1)
Creating a basic group
241(1)
Setting up a smart group (based on contact criteria)
242(1)
Deleting a group or smart group
243(1)
The view is lovely
243(1)
Sync + Contacts = your contacts everywhere
244(3)
Chapter 14 Communicating with Mail and Messages
247(24)
Sending and Receiving Email with Mail
247(20)
Setting up Mail
248(1)
A quick overview of the toolbar
249(2)
Composing a new message
251(2)
Sending email from the Contacts app
253(1)
Working with stationery
254(2)
Checking your mail
256(1)
Dealing with Spam
257(1)
Mailboxes smart and plain
258(2)
Changing your preferences
260(1)
Sign here, please
261(1)
Mail rules rule
262(3)
Markup and Mail Drop
265(2)
Communicating with Messages
267(4)
What the heck is an iMessage?
267(1)
Chit-chatting with Messages
268(3)
Chapter 15 Sharing Your Mac and Liking It
271(34)
Introducing Networks and File Sharing
272(5)
Portrait of home office networking
273(1)
Three ways to build a network
274(3)
Setting Up File Sharing
277(2)
Access and Permissions: Who Can Do What
279(16)
Users and groups and guests
279(1)
Creating users
280(7)
macOS knows best: Folders shared by default
287(1)
Sharing a folder or disk by setting permissions
288(4)
Useful settings for permissions
292(2)
Unsharing a folder
294(1)
Connecting to a Shared Disk or Folder on a Remote Mac
295(3)
Changing Your Password
298(3)
Changing your account password on your Mac
299(1)
Changing the password of any account but your own on your Mac
300(1)
Changing the password for your account on someone else's Mac
300(1)
More Types of Sharing
301(6)
Sharing a screen
301(1)
Sharing the Internet
302(1)
And yet more ways to share
303(2)
Part 5: Getting Creative 305(60)
Chapter 16 The Musical Mac
307(18)
Apple Music and iTunes Match Rock!
308(1)
Introducing iTunes
309(3)
Working with Media
312(6)
Adding songs
312(2)
Adding movies and TV shows
314(1)
Adding podcasts
315(2)
Learning from iTunes U
317(1)
Listening to iTunes Radio
317(1)
All about Playlists
318(7)
Creating a regular playlist
318(2)
Working with smart playlists
320(1)
Burning a playlist to CD
321(1)
Looking at the Genius playlist
321(4)
Chapter 17 The Multimedia Mac
325(16)
Playing Movies and Music in QuickTime Player
325(2)
iBooks on the Mac
327(6)
Buying iBooks
328(2)
Shopping for books without Apple
330(1)
Reading iBooks
331(2)
You're the Star with Photo Booth
333(1)
Viewing and Converting Images and PDFs in Preview
334(2)
Importing Media
336(5)
Downloading photos from a camera
336(3)
Downloading DV video from a camcorder
339(2)
Chapter 18 Words and Letters
341(10)
Processing Words with TextEdit
341(7)
Creating and composing a document
342(1)
Working with text
343(4)
Adding graphics to documents
347(1)
Font Mania
348(3)
Types of fonts
348(1)
Managing your fonts with Font Book
349(1)
Installing fonts manually
350(1)
Chapter 19 Publish or Perish: The Fail-Safe Guide to Printing
351(14)
Before Diving In
352(1)
Ready: Connecting and Adding Your Printer
352(4)
Connecting your printer
353(1)
Setting up a printer for the first time
353(3)
One last thing: Printer sharing
356(1)
Set: Setting Up Your Document with Page Setup
356(2)
Print: Printing with the Print Sheet
358(5)
Printing a document
358(1)
Choosing among different printers
359(1)
Choosing custom settings
360(2)
Saving custom settings
362(1)
Preview and PDF Options
363(2)
Part 6: Care And Feeding 365(58)
Chapter 20 Features for the Way You Work
367(20)
Talking and Listening to Your Mac
367(7)
Keyboard System Preferences pane: You talk and your Mac types
368(1)
Commanding your Mac by voice
369(2)
Listening to your Mac read for you
371(3)
Automatic Automation
374(4)
Script Editor app: Write and edit AppleScripts
374(2)
Automator app: Automate almost anything
376(2)
A Few More Useful Goodies
378(9)
App Store app: The place to buy Mac apps
378(1)
Accessibility System Preferences pane: Make your Mac more accessible
379(1)
Energy Saver System Preferences pane: For energy conservation and sleep
380(2)
Bluetooth System Preferences pane: Where Bluetooth lives
382(1)
Ink System Preferences pane: Visible to pen-input tablet users only
382(1)
Automatic Login in the Users & Groups System Preferences pane: Don't bother with the login screen
383(1)
Allow your Apple Watch to unlock your Mac
383(1)
Boot Camp Assistant app: Run Windows on your Mac...really
384(1)
AirPlay mirroring
384(1)
Handoff
385(2)
Chapter 21 Safety First: Backups and Other Security Issues
387(16)
Backing Up Is (Not) Hard to Do
388(5)
Backing up with High Sierra's excellent Time Machine
388(4)
Backing up by using the manual, brute-force method
392(1)
Backing up by using commercial backup software
393(1)
Why You Need Two Sets of Backups
393(1)
Non-Backup Security Concerns
394(5)
About viruses and other malware
394(3)
Firewall: Yea or nay?
397(1)
Install recommended software updates
398(1)
Protecting Your Data from Prying Eyes
399(4)
Blocking or limiting connections
399(1)
Locking down files with FileVault
399(1)
Setting other options for security
400(3)
Chapter 22 Utility Chest
403(10)
Calculator
403(1)
Activity Monitor
404(2)
Disk Utility
406(2)
First Aid button
406(1)
Partition button
407(1)
Erase button
407(1)
Mount/Unmount button
407(1)
Info button
408(1)
Grab
408(1)
Grapher
408(1)
Keychain Access
409(2)
Migration Assistant
411(1)
System Information
411(1)
Terminal
412(1)
Chapter 23 Troubleshooting macOS
413(10)
About Startup Disks and Booting
413(3)
Finding or creating a startup disk
414(1)
They call it a prohibitory sign for a reason
414(2)
Recovering with Recovery HD
416(4)
Step 1: Run First Aid
416(1)
Step 2: Safe boot into Safe mode
417(1)
Step 3: Zapping the PRAM/NVRAM
418(1)
Step 4: Reinstalling macOS
419(1)
Step 5: Things to try before taking your Mac in for repair
419(1)
If Your Mac Crashes at Startup
420(1)
Optimizing Storage
421(2)
Part 7: The Part Of Tens 423(22)
Chapter 24 Ten (or So) Ways to Speed Up Your Mac Experience
425(12)
Use Those Keyboard Shortcuts
426(1)
Improve Your Typing Skills
427(1)
Resolution: It's Not Just for New Year's Day Anymore
427(2)
A Mac with a View - and Preferences, Too
429(2)
Get a New, Faster Model
431(1)
You Can Never Have Too Much RAM!
431(1)
Get an Accelerated Graphics Card
432(1)
Get a Solid-State Drive (SSD)
433(1)
Get a New Hybrid Drive
433(4)
Chapter 25 Ten Great Websites for Mac Freaks
437(8)
The Mac Observer
437(1)
Macworld
438(1)
TidBITS
438(1)
AppleWorld.Today
439(1)
Download.com
439(1)
Alltop
440(1)
Apple Support
441(1)
Other World Computing
441(1)
EveryMac.com
442(1)
dealmac
442(3)
Index 445
Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVitus is a veteran Mac guru. He is the author of the "Dr. Mac" column for the Houston Chronicle and has been a consistent contributor to a variety of tech publications. Bob has written or co-written more than 80 books on macOS, iPhone, iPad, Office for the Mac, GarageBand, and other related topics.