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Windows >>>> Mac Tutorial?

Hi,

I have been using Macs for several years now at work (love them) and my family utilizes a few PCs at home. We are about to hire several new personnel at work and although they are all well-qualified for the positions, they do not have any Mac experience (we are making a move to 100% Mac). Is there a website that would be helpful for those that are (perhaps, reluctantly), transitioning from their comfortable world to Mac?

Thanks

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but more useful is to click and hold on it in the Dock.

A much-needed tip! I keep forgetting to post something asking about functionality like that, didn't know it was that easy.

Humans are a varied breed, for sure. To me, one of the best features of OS X is the finder. I absolutely love it. I agree there could be a lot less wasted space, but I love the columnar interface and how it works with either the mouse or keyboard (except I think <enter> should LAUNCH, not rename). I love how it works with plug-in devices as well as it does with the system, and how everything looks integrated and smooth. FAR more productive, for me, than the equivalents in Windows. And I've only been a full-time Mac user for two weeks.

The Dock though, is my absolute #1 favorite feature. It's really what first made me want to switch. I love how apps are arranged as you want to, and a running app stays in the same place with an arrow. In Windows I'd make sure to launch all my usual apps in the "right" order so they'd always be where I expected. I keep a LOT of apps running all the time, and searching for the app in the taskbar is a big waste of time, done hundreds of times a day.

Several people have given you good suggestions on replacing the "Start" menu. I'm glad I didn't try any of them, because the more I do it Apple's way the better it works, as I get used to it. Between a highly tuned Dock and the simple "Applications" button in finder, I'm getting to my most-used apps faster than I ever did in Windows.

Definitely get a multi-button mouse. Though unfortunately, more than two buttons is ill-supported. Then you get the right-click ability you're used to in Windows.

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Originally Posted by bernball

I have a training/intro tutorial i made for some people at work that are very computer literate people, but not mac literate. when i made it the os was at X.2.6 so that is what it references. you are welcome to it if you want it. PM me and i can email it to you. it is a 2.12MB PDF.

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i just went ahead and put it on my server so you can download it

Thank you, I'll download and go over it with a few labmates.