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56 Macintosh User's Handbook
Press the mouse button. The File menu will be displayed just as
it was when
we wanted to eject the System Disk. Move the
pointer to
Open in the File menu, and release the mouse
button. An outline will leap out of the icon and fill the left side
of the screen as a window.
Notice
that the System Disk icon is no longer black, but is
hollow. This indicates that it is open.
Now
that we have opened the System Disk icon, let's close
it. There are two methods for closing
an icon. We will term the
method described here as
"File menu close," as we will again be
using the File menu. The method is simple. Pull down the File
menu, indicate Close, and release the mouse
button. The win-
dow will disappear from the screen and leap back into the
System Disk icon.
Now
that the System Disk icon has been closed, it can be
reopened using the second method for opening
an icon. Since
this method involves clicking the mouse button, we will term it
"Clicking an icon open." Clicking can be defined as pressing
and releasing the mouse button.
First, let's deselect the
System Disk icon by moving the
pointer outside it and clicking the mouse button. Next, move
the pointer inside
of the System Disk icon and press the mouse
button twice. This is known as double clicking. If nothing
happened, you probably did not press the
button quickly
enough the second time. Try again. The Desktop should
resemble figure 3.11.
Close the
System Disk icon using the File menu close
method. Notice
that the System Disk icon is selected. Position
the pointer
on the System Disk icon and click the mouse
button twice. Again, the System Disk icon will be opened.
We are now ready
to learn the second method for closing
an icon. In this method, the pointer is moved to a small square
in the window's title
bar known as the close box. This is shown
in figure 3.12. When the
pointer is positioned within the close
box, click the mouse button. The window will jump back into
the
System Disk icon.