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keyboard shortcut work, but the menu where the shortcut appears doesn’t
actually tell you that. You can find out much more about keyboard shortcuts
in Chapter 2.
To use Mac Help, simply type a word or phrase into the text field at the top
right and then press Return or Enter. In a few seconds, your Mac provides
you one or more articles to read, which (theoretically) are related your ques-
tion. Usually. For example, if you type menus and press Return, you get 25 dif-
ferent help articles, as shown in Figure 1-5.
Now, here’s a cool new feature I like to call automatic visual help cues. Here’s
how they work:
1. Type a word or phrase in the Help menu’s Search field.
2. Select any item that has a menu icon to its left (such as the Secure
Empty Trash item in Figure 1-6).
The automatic visual cue — an arrow — appears, pointing at that com-
mand in the appropriate menu.
Figure 1-5:
You have
questions?
Mac has
answers.
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