UD069225@NDSUVM1.BITNET (Eric H. Romo) (03/31/88)
Here is an article by Piter Jonker,ihnp4!ihlpg!hvlpa!pjonker, describing
some interesting "hidden" features, tips and hints about special key
combinations that are useful in better using your Mac. This is a re-post
of his original article. I hope you find this useful.
-Eric.
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Finder Enhancements:
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Option Close Close all windows from the desktop
(box or menu)
" Clean up Align all of icons in the active
window with the grid used by clean up
windows
" Double click on Opens the icon; but after you open an
disk or folder application or document in the window, the
window is closed when you return to the finder
" Quit program or Returns to Finder with no folders open.
mount disk
" Drag Icon to trash Places locked file or application in trash
without warning message.
" Drag a document, Duplicates the document, folder or application
folder or Application.in the new location, and does not Move it.
to a new folder. (Finder 5.4 and later)
" Init or erase a Initializes a 400k disk as an HFS disk.
disk
Clover: Drag a window Moves the window without maing it active.
" Drag an icon Aligns the icon with the grid used by clean
(in icon views) up windows.
" Double click on a Makes the icons window active.
icon
" press ^ in a standard Moves up in the file hierarchy
file dialog box (^ is up-arrow)
" press v (down arrow) Opens up the folder
in a standard file
dialog box with a
folder selected
" Press "." Cancels a print or copy job.
" Then a list of "standard cases"
A, C, D, E, I, N, O, P, V, X, Z
Option-Clover
" Double click on a Makes the disk with the chosen Finder
Finder Icon the current startup disk.
" Mount a disk Rebuilds the desktop file; you lose any
comments you had in the Info window, but you
gain speed.
" Press Tab Ask whether you want to reinitialize a disk
when it's being mounted
Shift: Click on an icon Selects or de-select an icon without
(de)selecting other icons.
Clover-Shift 1 Eject internal diskette (if present)
" 2 Eject internal diskette (if present)
" 3 Creates a MacPaint document of the current
screen
" 4 with Caps Prints the contents of the active window if an
lock up Imagewriter is present
" 4 with Caps Prints the current screen if an
lock down Imagewriter is present
When a standard file-dialog box is on the screen, clicking on the
(hard/ram) disk icon returns you to the root level of that disk.
Option - "Clover" - Shift Delete
Startup a Mac with a diskette inserted
Prevents the Internal SCSI hard drive from being mounted.
Macwrite enhancements:
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To select a large area of a document:
Drag the pointer diagonally over the text you want to select
Click once at the beginning of the portion of text you want to select.
Then move to the end of the area you want to select, and click when
holding down "shift". This will select the area between the click and
the shift click
To add page breaks to a document:
Use the Insert Page break command from the Format Menu to insert a
Page break instead of using "Return" to add line spacing to the
document. This will make it easier to edit the document.
To space evenly numbers in a column:
Use decimal tabs by positioning the pointer on the tab well (the
triangle on the ruler with the period in it) and drag the triangle to
the point on the ruler where you want the decimal point of the numbers
to lie. When you tab to this spot, any numbers you type will move to
the left of the tab until you enter the decimal for the number. Then
the numbers will be entered to the right of the decimal.
To retype characters that have been deleted by backspace:
Hold down "clover" and press "delete". You can retype up to 50
characters that have been deleted.
To start Page numbers on the second page of the document:
Choose the title page command from the Format Menu. f you want to start
the numbers at 1 instead of 2, choose Set Page # from the Format Menu
and press 0. Page Numbers are created in the Open Header or Open Footer
commands in the Format Menu.
To mix text and graphics on the same line:
Create both the text and graphics in Macpaint or Macdraw, and Paste the
whole thing into Macwrite as a graphic.
Macpaint enhancements:
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Draw borders in the active pattern rather than in black:
Hold down "option" while drawing boxes or circles.
The thickness of the borders is determined by the line width
To rescale the size of an object:
Cut or Copy the object. Use the dotted box (marquee) tool to draw a
rectangle that you want the object to be scaled to. Paste the object
and it will be scaled to the size of the rectangle.
To create multiple copies of an object:
Define an object with the selection rectangle or lasso. Hold down the
Clover and Option and press the mouse while moving the mouse. Multiple
copies will be made. Rapidly moving the mouse produces unevenly spaced
copies, while slowly moving the mouse produces evenly spaced copies.
The line width determines the spacing of the copies. To keep your copies
in a straight line, keep "Shift" pressed to constrain the movement of
the mouse.
To stretch an object:
Surround the object with the selection rectangle, and point to the
edge (the cursor will become an arrow). Hold down Clover, press the
mouse button and "pull" the object until the shape is the way you want
it. If you "grab" the edge near the middle, you can stretch the object
in the direction of the edge.
To maintain a pattern while you stretch an object
Choose Grid from the Goodies menu.
To paint or spray "underneath" objects already on the screen
Hold down "Clover" while using spray or brush
To quit Macpaint, eject the disks, and restart the system
hold down clover, and Quit.
Font DA Mover enhancements:
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To Start DA's mode rather than Font Mode
Hold down Option while starting FDA-Mover
To Display All files in FDA-Mover.
Hold down Option and click Open. This allows you to install fonts or
DA's into a specific application or into other files that have resource
forks. Useful when you need a DA or Font only within a specific
application.
To eject the disk when closing a list of Fonts or DA's.
Hold down Option while clicking the close box.
To eject all non-essential disks when quitting:
Hold down Option, and click QUIT.
To Show how many bytes of a DA are occupied
(Suppose this one is out of date)
Hold down Option and click the name of the DA
Disk First Aid enhancements:
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Press Clover-S after selecting the disk to be repaired. This will
provide additional Info about the disk repair process
MacDraw enhancements:
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To Wrap pasted text within an area:
Create the rectangle that the text is to wrap within, and press any key
(hitting the space bar will suffice). Any text that is pasted will wrap to
the size specified by the original rectangle.
To select a Block of text:
Tripple click with the text tool in a block of text. This applies only
to paragraph text. (Refer to Macdraw manual for further explanation)
To redraw the type of object that was most recently drawn.
Hold down clover, and click where the new object is to be drawn.
The previous action will be selected automatically. All of the objects
drawn while "Clover" is held down will be selected when you release
clover and the mouse button.
To center text in a box:
Shift click to select the text and the box in which you want it to be
centered. Choose Align Objects from the Arrange menu. Click L/R Centers
(horizontal centers) and T/B Centers (vertical centers), and click OK.
To resize several objects in the same time:
Shift Click to select the objects and choose Group from the Arrange
menu. You can now resize all of the objects at the same time by
clicking once on an object and moving on of the handles of the object.
To change the default font:
Click the pointer tool and choose a font from the Font Menu.
To Capitalize The First Letter Of Every Word In Selected Text:
Select Text And Choose Title From The Style Menu.
To center an object on an point:
Cut or Copy the object, click where the objects center is to fall, and
Paste
MacProject Tricks
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To create dependent boxes:
Draw a dependency line from the center of any existing task or
milestone box outward to the right. When you release the mouse button,
MacProject draws a new task box the same size as the original box. The
new task box is dependent on the task you started the dependency line
from.
To Move quickly to the Task Info Window:
Press Tab after you've drawn a new task or box. A Task Info Window
appears presenting duration and resources for the new task. The first
blank is automatically elected. Pressing Tab again moves the insertion
point to the next blank or the first task if you're in the last blank.
To add text to a chart:
Click anywhere you want to add the text (any chart or table). Then
enter the text.
Minifinder Tricks:
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To return to the Finder from an application when the MiniFinder is active:
Hold down option while quitting an application.
To quit the MiniFinder and return to the Finder:
press Enter while in the Minifinder. This is equivalent to clicking the
Finder button.
To change drives in the MiniFinder:
Press Tab while in the Minifinder. This is equivalent to clicking the
Drive button. By doing this, you may specify which disk's Finder you
want to quit to, as the Minifinder will start any Finder on any disk as
long as the Finder exists on that disk.
Macterminal enhancements
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To Simulate cursor key movements:
Hold down Option and click where you want the cursor to be. Macterminal
transmits the appropriate cursor key sequences to the mainframe.
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Resedit question (1.3)
Press Shift-Option-Clover and select "about Resedit"
What does this mean ??
(In Previous versions something with Debug on - Debug off toggle )
How to debug ??
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ABSOLUTELY NO GUARANTEE ON THE AFOREMENTIONED TIPS !!!
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(This was made possible in coorporation with Dutch Mister T. Disk)
And the standard disclaimers, I don't, will not, should not, am not
representing *anybody* here.
Source: Mastering Macintosh - For Apple Eyes Only.
Piter Jonker,ihnp4!ihlpg!hvlpa!pjonker
Hilversum, (A center Town of ) Holland.
*************************** End of original article *******************mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu (04/04/88)
Wow! And I thought that WordPrefect for the IBM was bad, with ten function keys and basic + alt or shift or ctrl! This is ridiculous! Why can't the Mac be easy to use?