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P
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Getting S
tar
ted
Setup and important health-related information
for the PowerBook
notebook computers
Contents
Main
K Apple Computer, Inc.
Contents
1Setting Up Your PowerBook Duo 1
2Learning to Use Your Computer 9
3Basic Skills 31
4Health, Safety, and Maintenance Tips 41
5The Control Strip 49
6Power Management 59
7Customizing and Traveling With Your PowerBook 77
8Building a PowerBook D uo System 89
9Using SCSI Devices 99
10 Ti ps and Troubleshooting 109
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Communications regulation information
FCC statement
Radio and television interference
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1
Step 1 Plug in the power adapter
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Step 3 Tur n o n t h e c om pu te r
Problems turnin g on your c omputer?
What to do next
Tur ni ng yo ur computer off
Putting your computer to sleep
Automatic sle ep
Restarting a computer thats already on
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Macintosh Basics
Part 1 Starting the
tour
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Now your screen should look like the following illustration:
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Part 2 Practicing your new skills
Reviewing what youve learned
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Answers to the review questions
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Practice session
1: Creating a new document
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2: Storing your work inside a folder
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3: Throwing an item away
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Whats next?
Clues on your screen
Is this the right program?
Is the correct window active?
Is the icon or text you want to work with selected?
Is it best to start over?
3
Worki ng w ith icons
An icon is a picture that represents something else.
Selecting icons
Copying icons
Opening icons
Moving icons
Naming icons
Removing items from the disk and retrieving them from the Trash
Worki ng with windows
A window opens when you double-click an icon. A window usually shows you whats inside an icon.
Viewing the c ontents of a window
Making a window active
Opening higher level folders or disks
Worki ng w ith do cuments
Opening and closing a document
Opening a document from within a program
Saving and naming documents
Choosing a folder when saving a document
Worki ng w ith disks
Preparing a new floppy disk for use
See Using Disks in the Macin tosh Reference manual.
Ejecting a floppy disk
Copying the contents of a disk
Organizing your desktop
Creating a new folder
Placing an icon inside a folder
Worki ng w ith pull-down menus
Keyboar d shor tcuts i n the Finder and in dire ctory dialog b oxes
4
Important care and safety instructions
Warnin g
Caution
Important
Caring for batteries
Health-related information about computer use
Musculoskeletal discomfort
Eye fatigue
Arranging your work area and equipment
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Avoi din g fa tig ue
What about electromagnetic emissions?
5
What is the Control Strip?
How does the Control Strip differ from control panels?
Closing, opening, and resizing the Control Strip
Closing the Control Strip
Opening the Control Strip
Resizing the Control Strip
Hiding the Control Strip
Moving the Control Strip
Rearranging th e module s in the Control Strip
Using the C ontrol Strip
Monitoring the charge level of the battery
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Customizing the Battery Monitor module
Changing the battery conservation settings
Spinning down the hard disk
Putting the computer to sleep
Changing the file sharing options
Changing the sound settings
Tur ni n g a n AppleTalk connection on and off
Using video mirroring
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Power sources
Monitoring the battery charge level
Using the Ba ttery desk accessory
Responding to low-power messages
What you should do
What you should know
Recharging th e batte r y
Recharging in the computer
Recharging in a recharger
Recharging in both the computer and a recharger
Removing or replacing the battery
Disposing of dead batteries
Replacing the backup batter y
Reconditioning the batter y
If you own a PowerBook Duo 280 or 280c
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If you own a PowerBook Duo 230
Maximizing work time
Ways to cons erv e battery power
Adjusting the Ba ttery Conservation settings
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Choosing Custom options
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Customizing your PowerBook
Automatically reconnecting to shared disks
Setting up a RAM Disk
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Improving pointer display
Printing later
Tra ve li ng with th e PowerBook
Storing the PowerBoo k
Service and support
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The PowerBook Duo Dock and Duo Dock II
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The PowerBook Duo MiniDock
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Using other equipment with your Duo system
Connecting a modem
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Connecting a printer
Connecting sound input and output devices
Adding memor y to your co mputer
Using a monitor for presentations
Using SCSI Devices
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Connecting SCSI devices
Installing software
Setting SCSI ID numbers
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Checking that the SCS I chain is properly terminated
Connecting cables
Using your PowerBook as a SCSI disk
Connecting your PowerBook as a SCSI disk
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Simplifying the SCSI disk conn ection process
Drawing battery p ower in SCSI dis k mode
Quitting SCSI disk mode
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The PowerBook Duo
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Power
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The screen
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The trackball
Memory
The Duo Dock
The Duo MiniDock
SCSI devices
Disk drives and disks
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Modems
Printers
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Networks
Application programs
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Appendix A Installing System Software
Before you begin
Installing syste m software for the first time
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Reinstalling system softwar e
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Installing cus tomized system software
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What is file synchronization?
Appendix B Using the PowerBook File Assistant
Starting the PowerBook File Assistant
Linking files or folders for synchronization
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Setting the direction of the link
Linking non-matching folders
Deleting a linked pair
Synchronizing linked folder s or file s
Manual synchronization
Automatic synch ronization
Understanding the alert messages
Setting up completely automatic synchronization
Macintosh PC Exchange at a glance
Appendix C Exchanging Files With DOS or Windows
Using DOS-format disks on your Macintosh
Creating a blank DOS-format disk
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Opening DOS documents on your Macintosh
Opening a document from within a Macintosh program
Opening a document by double-clicking its icon
Assigning Macintosh pr ograms to D OS do cuments
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Recommended assignments for some widely used application programs
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Adding an assi gnm ent to the PC Exchange control panel
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Try in g o ut an assignment
Editing the list of a ssignments
Sharing assignment lists with other users
Saving documents onto a DOS-format disk
Choosing a file format
Naming files for use on both Macintosh and DOS computers
Viewing the c ontents of a disk on your DOS computer
Index
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