The document provides an overview of customizing and using the basic features of a Macbook. It discusses customizing the dock and interface, using touch gestures, managing multiple open apps with Mission Control, keyboard shortcuts like copy and paste, and features like AirDrop and Time Machine backups. System Preferences allow modifying settings like the desktop background, screensaver, and power options. Regular restarts are recommended to refresh the Macbook.

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Macbook for Beginners
Tegan Ambrosa

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Contents
 Introducing the interface
 Customising the Dock
 Touch gestures with the Macbook
 Quick Commands
 System Preferences
 Macbook features (Airdrop, Time Machine)

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Customising the Interface

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Startup Screen Interface
Bar above is the “Dock”
This
bracketed
area is the
desktop. You
can save
documents
here.
This boxed
area is the
Menu for the
application I
have open.
Right now I
have Safari
open, but it is
minimised.

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Introducing the Interface
Application Icon Folder Icon
 Each application icon is unique
to be identifiable
 Folder icons can help you
identify what is inside them.

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Customising the Dock
 Adding a new application to the dock
 1. Open your application (i.e. Spotify)
 2. Right click on your application in the Dock
 3. Hover mouse over “Options” and select “Keep in Dock”

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Customising the Dock
 We can also change how to
Dock behaves
 Increase the size of icons
 Magnify the size of icons when
hovering our mouse over the
icon
 Change the position of the
Dock

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Activity – Customise your Dock

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Touch Gestures for the
Macbook
Mousepad fun!

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Touch Gestures – Open LaunchPad
Try going reverse as well!

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Mission Control – Managing multiple
applications open
 When you have multiple
applications open, it can be an
ordeal to switch between apps
 Put all relevant apps into Full
Screen mode
 Swipe three fingers up – all full
screen apps will be in the top
bar
 All other open apps will be
below

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Mission Control - Activity
 Open multiple applications
 Very cluttered screen – hard to
find apps/documents
 Once apps have been
maximised to full screen mode
 Swipe three fingers up to enter
Mission Control

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Moving between fullscreen
applications
Swipe with two fingers left to right to switch between
applications in full screen mode.

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The Notification Centre - Activity
 The Notification Centre is a
customizable area
 Move mouse close to the right
side of the screen
 Place two fingers on the
tackpad in a colon position on
the right side of the trackpad
 Swipe right to left on the
trackpad

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Open the Notification Centre
Then click “Edit” down the bottom.

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Quick Commands
AKA keyboard shortcuts

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Command x A – Select All
 Select all allows us to copy everything on a clipboard or editing area of
an application (i.e all the words and pictures in a pages document.)

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Command x C
 Once we have something selected, we can make a copy of the
selected text.

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Command x V - Paste
 Command x V makes a copy of our selected text. We can spam this
command until we have all the copies we require.

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Command x X - Cut
 Cutting allows us to remove whatever text we have selected – but it
does not delete our selected text. We can pasted our “cut out” bit of
data and paste it somewhere else.
 Imagine it like cutting out a newspaper article. Once the article has
been cut, it currently resides in your hand until you decide to paste it
down onto some new paper.

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Activity
Open a document and write out some random
text.
Select all your text using the quick command,
make a copy of your text, and paste multiple
copies of the text.
Then select only some of your text (using the
mouse for this bit only), and cut it out. Paste it
elsewhere.

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Made a mistake – no problem!
 Command x Z – Undo
 If you’re typing out a massive
document and you accidently
deleted all your text, use this
function.
 Command x Y – redo
 Turns out you didn’t make a
mistake – you don’t have to
retype everything out again, just
hit CMD x Y to get all your stuff
back.

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Other common application based
commands
 Command x O
 Opens Finder to find a
document
 Command x P
 Prints out the document you
currently have open
 Command x N
 Begins a new document in the
application that is currently
open
 Command x S
 Allows you to save your document
 If this is the first time saving the
document, your application will
prompt you asking where you would
like to save the document.

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Other useful keyboard commands

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Quitting Applications
 Command x Q
 Force quits the current open application
 Be careful – if you minimise an application, then use the quick
command to force quit without selecting another application, you will
force quit the minimised application.
 Command x Option x Escape
 If an application is frozen, this is the equivalent of task manager in
windows
 Allows you to select an application to force quit.

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Activity
 Open multiple applications and
force quit them.
 Use both Command x Q and
Command x Option x Escape

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System Preferences
More customisation

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System Preferences Interface

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Changing your Desktop Background
 Open System Preferences
 Select Desktop & Screen Saver
 Choose Pictures or Desktop
Pictures
 Change the picture to change
every 5 minutes

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Changing your screensaver
Select Screensaver Select Folder

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Power Options - Battery
• Put hard disk to sleep
– saves power, but
can make your
MacBook “slow”
• Slightly dim display –
self explanatory
• Enable Power Nap –
stops all services
when MacBook is
asleep, but will still
check for certain
services.

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Main MacBook Features
AirDrop and TimeMachine

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Air Drop

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Time Machine
Backing up your MacBook
• Allows the user to back their
entire computer up to an
external hard drive
• Can be scheduled to occure at
certain times

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Restarting your MacBook
 Recommend to do at least ONCE A WEEK
 Resets all processes and refreshes memory cache
 If you notice your MacBook is running slow – restart
 Allows MacBook to Index the contents
 Indexing is like filing everything away at the end of the day in
order (imagine getting a massive stack of papers)

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All of todays content can be found from
https://www.apple.com/au/support/macbasics/