Press
To press means to point to something and hold the mouse button down. Press on items in the Dock to pop up their menus. Press on the arrows in a scroll bar of a window to scroll through that window.
Often directions (not mine!) will tell you to "click" on things when they really mean "press." If clicking doesn't work, try pressing. Exercise 1:
Open the menus that pop up from the Dock (the strip of icons across the bottom of your screen).
1. | Press (don't click!) on the Finder icon in the Dock. A little menu pops up; if you have more than one window open, this menu will list each one.
This is the Finder icon. | 2. | To make the menu go away, just drag your mouse off to the side and let go of the mouse button. |
Press on the Finder icon (don't click) and you'll see something in this menu. The name of each window that you have open will appear in the menu. Exercise 2: In a minute you can scroll through a window by pressing on the scroll arrows. But first go to the following page and learn about press-and-drag so you can resize your window; otherwise you might not even see scroll arrows! |