CS1013 Macintosh Basics Questions

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Read over all questions first. Answer the questions using the information from the Macintosh Basics tutorial application. This out of lab assignment is worth 10 points.

If you would like to brush up on your mouse skills, go through the mouse tutorial. It is not required for you to do this (however, the tutorial is kind of cute).

Getting Around in Mac Basics

1. What is the purpose of the Guide Me button?

Desktop

2. Draw a rough picture of the Macintosh Desktop.

3. What are icons?

4. What is the purpose of the trash icon?

5. Where is the menu bar?

Creating a document

6. What happens when you open the hard disk icon?

7. Where is the window's name displayed?

Working with more than one program

8. When you copy something (e.g. in the draw program) where does it go?

9. When using the Application menu, how do you tell which application is active?

10. What other programs are currently open?

11. What is the purpose of the Finder?

Filing your Work

12. What is a Folder?

13. How do you move documents into folders?

14. What is an active window and how can you tell the difference between an active widow and an inactive window?

15. How do you make an inactive window active?

16. What is the Close Box and where it is located?

More about the desktop

17. What are the two ways to open an icon?

18. How do you resize a window?

19. How do you throw away a document that is no longer needed?

20. How do you know if something is in the trash?

21. (True/False) Once you've thrown away a document, it can't be retrieved.

22. How do you get on-screen help?