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Single-click

A single-click is a quick, light touch on the front end of the mouse, with the pointer (or other cursor) located at the spot of your choice on the screen. As you work on your Mac, these are the kinds of things you'll do with a single click:Chapter 6, you'll single-click with an "I-beam" to set down an "insertion point" for text.

Exercise 1:
Use a single-click to select an icon on the Desktop.

If you see an icon of your hard disk in the upper-right corner of your screen, single-click on that icon. (If not, skip to the next exercise.)

A single click "selects" an individual icon that is on the Desktop or inside of a window so you can do something with it. You're not going to do anything with it right now except notice it.

Note

To deselect an icon, just click anywhere else, preferably on a blank spot on your Desktop.

This is a typical unselected icon.

When you single-click an icon, the border around it is your visual clue that it is selected.

Exercise 2:
Use a single-click to open a Finder window.

In the Dock (that bar of icons across the bottom of your screen), single-click on the smiley icon on the left end, which is the Finder icon.

This is the Finder icon in the Dock.

When you single-click an icon in the Dock, it opens that item. In this case, you have opened what's called a Finder window.

If you already had a Finder window open on your screen, nothing appears to happen except that window makes itself available to you. Continue to the next exercise.

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Exercise 3:
Display the contents of the Applications folder in the same Finder window.

In the Finder window that opened in Exercise 2, single-click on the "Applications" name or icon in the Sidebar.

When you single-click an icon in the Sidebar, that item displays its contents in the window pane to the right. These icons in the Sidebar are actually the equivalent of folders, in that they store other files for you. If your Mac is brand new, the "folders" in the Sidebar named Documents, Movies, Music, and Pictures are probably empty at the momentthat's okay. Go ahead and single-click on them to check.

When you single-click an icon in the Sidebar, the window pane on the right changes to display the contents of the item you clicked on. For instance, here you see the applications that are stored in my Applications folder. You will probably have different application icons in your Applications folder.

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Exercise 4:
In the same Finder window, change the view of the window pane.

Exercise 5:
You can always open a menu with a single click.

Exercise 6:
Close the window and go to the next exercise.

Single-click the red button in any window you ever see if you want to close that window.

Single-click the red button in the top-left of the window.Chapter 4). If you click the green button, all it will do is enlarge or reduce the size of the window.