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a few seconds after you click them, even if you’re not holding down the
mouse button. After you click a menu to open it, you can even type the first
letter (or letters) of the item to select it and then execute that item with the
spacebar or the Return or Enter key.
Go ahead and give it a try . . . I’ll wait.
Not Just a Beatles Movie:
Help and the Help Menu
One of the best features about all Macs is the excellent built-in help, and Mac
OS X doesn’t cheat you on that legacy: This system has online help in abun-
dance. When you have a question about how to do something, the Mac Help
Center is the first place you should visit (after this book, of course).
Clicking the Help menu reveals the Search Help field at the top of the menu
and the Mac Help item, which opens the Mac Help window, as shown in
Figure 1-4.
The keyboard shortcut for Help appears on the Help menu as Ô+?, but
you really need to press Ô+Shift+? to open Help through the keyboard. Just
so you know, this is the only case where you need to press Shift to make a
Figure 1-4:
Mac Help is
nothing if
not helpful.
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