A Windows User's Roadmap to the Apple Macintosh User Interface: Part 2 - Reader Tips

by Lee Hudspeth
(This article appears in The Naked PC #6.12, July 8, 2003)

** 02. A Windows User's Roadmap to the Apple Macintosh User
       Interface: Part 2 - Reader Tips (by Lee Hudspeth)

Here are some helpful Mac-to-PC "switching" tips provided by The 
Naked PC readers. You can read my first article here:
http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/612/tr.cgi?lee1

Poul pointed out that in my original article I neglected to 
mention the shortcuts for Cut, Copy, and Paste. Oops! The letter 
key portion of the shortcuts are the same in both environments 
(Macintosh OS and Windows):

Cmd+X = Cut
Cmd+C = Copy
Cmd+V = Paste

On a PC you press the Ctrl key, then the appropriate letter, and 
on a Mac you press the Cmd key.

There are other common shortcuts, the first two shown below were 
pointed out by Jeff M. (for all of these, substitute Ctrl on a 
PC). You'll find a few others but these are the most familiar.

Cmd+S = File, Save
Cmd+P = File, Print
Cmd+N = File, New
Cmd+O = File, Open
Cmd+F = Edit, Find (most Microsoft Office apps)
Cmd+H = Edit, Replace (most Microsoft Office apps)

Some Mac-only shortcuts that I personally use quite a bit are:

Cmd+W = Close (Ctrl+F4 on a PC)
Cmd+U = edit in Excel's formula bar (F2 on a PC)

Our colleague and The Naked PC's Contributing Editor Al Gordon 
pointed out a cool book by David Pogue, "Switching to the Mac: 
The Missing Manual."
http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/612/tr.cgi?lee2

A free sample of Pogue's chapter 5 "Five Ways to Transfer Your 
Files" is available here:
http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/612/tr.cgi?lee3

(c) 2003, Lee Hudspeth
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