Apple 145 manual Open an icon, Click the startup hard disk icon to select it

Open an icon

Opening an icon is your first exercise in telling the computer what you want it to do.

1.Click the startup hard disk icon to select it.

The icon is in the upper-right corner of the screen. Unless someone has changed its name, the icon is called “Macintosh HD.” Make sure that the icon is highlighted (darkened), which means that it’s selected.

2.Point to the File menu title in the menu bar.

3.Press to pull down the File menu.

4.Drag to the Open command (the second item in the File menu) so it becomes highlighted, and then release the trackball button.

When you choose the Open command, the selected icon opens into a window (in this case, the Macintosh HD window). The icon becomes filled in with a pattern

of dots, indicating that it has been opened.

vDifferent icons? The Macintosh HD window on your screen may contain items not shown above. The differences are not important; you can still do the exercises in this chapter and the next. v

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