Reviewing the basics
You can use the following illustrations to review the elements you use on your
screen to do work with your computer.
Menus
The strip across the top of the screen is called the menu bar. The symbols
and words in it represent menus of commands. To open a menu, place the
pointer on the symbol or word for the menu and press and hold down the
trackpad button.
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Menu
Control Strip
Window
Icons
Printer menu
You can see a list of printers and choose
any of them as the default printer.
Guide menu
To find an answer to a question,
look in the Guide (
h
) menu.
Application menu
You can have several application programs open at once. To
see which program is active or to switch from one program to
another, use this menu (called the Application menu).