Press
You press by first pointing to an object and then pushing down steadily on
the mouse button. Don't move the mouse while you press.
Practice pressing all the titles of the menus in the menu bar (for now, don't
actually choose any of the commands). Move the tip of the arrow pointer onto
a menu title, and then press and hold down the mouse button (without moving
the mouse). The menu appears below its title. When you're finished looking at
the menu, release the mouse button (still without moving the mouse).
Drag
You drag an object by pointing to it, pressing the mouse button, and then
moving the mouse in the direction you want to move the object.
Practice dragging the Trash icon to other locations on the desktop. Move the
tip of the arrow pointer onto the Trash icon, press the mouse button, drag
toward the top or left side of the screen, and release the mouse button.
Notice that when you move the mouse, an outline of the icon moves along with
the pointer. When you release the mouse button, the icon moves to the new
location.
You can't lose an icon by dragging it off the desktop -- try it and see.
Using your mouse skills
Now that you are familiar with the skills required to use your mouse, you can
communicate with your computer. Begin with the following steps.
Opening icons
1. First clean up your desktop by closing any open windows that might be on
your screen.
As you may remember from the Macintosh Basics tour, you close a window by
moving the mouse so that the tip of the pointer is in the box at the upper-
left corner of the window and then clicking the mouse button once. Do this
for all open windows.
2. Click the System Startup disk icon on your screen.
3. Choose the Open command from the File menu.
Here's a review of how to choose a command:
- Move the tip of the arrow pointer onto the menu title (File).
- Press and hold the mouse button to display the menu (list of commands).
- Keeping the mouse button down, drag the pointer down to the command you
want (Open).
- When the command you want is highlighted (surrounded by the black bar),
release the mouse button.
The selected icon (the one you clicked, System Startup) opens into a window.
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