Apple 145 manual Windows let you see what’s inside containers, Menus offer you choices, Memo

Documents are files containing words, pictures, numbers, sounds—whatever you create with your programs.

The Trash is a container for files that you no longer want.

Windows let you see what’s inside containers

Windows let you see what’s inside all these containers.

When you open a disk icon, the window that appears shows you what’s on the disk. When you open the document icon representing a memo, the window that appears shows you

the memo.

Changing the size of a window or viewing its contents does not change the contents. The contents remain the same; only your view changes.

Menus offer you choices

Like the menus in a restaurant, Macintosh menus let you choose. You choose among different actions that the computer can perform on containers (icons), or on their contents (such as words in a memo).

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