Introduction 1 About This Book 1 Foolish Assumptions 3 Icons Used in This Book 3 Beyond the Book 4 Where to Go from Here 4 Part 1: macOS Basics 5 Chapter 1: macOS Monterey 101 (Prerequisites: None) 7 Gnawing to the Core of macOS 8 A Safety Net for the Absolute Beginner (or Any User) 10 Turning the dang thing on 10 What you should see on startup 11 Shutting down properly 14 A few things you should definitely not do with your Mac 15 Point-and-click 101 16 Not Just a Beatles Movie: Help and the Help Menu 18 Chapter 2: Desktop and Windows and Menus (Oh My!) 23 Touring Finder and Its Desktop 24 Anatomy of a Window 25 Top o'' the window to ya! 27 A scroll new world 29 (Hyper)active windows 30 Dialog Dealie-Boppers 32 Working with Windows 34 Opening and closing windows 34 Resizing windows and window panes 35 Moving windows 35 Shuffling windows 36 Menu Basics 38 The ever-changing menu bar 39 Contextual (shortcut) menus: They''re sooo contextual! 39 Recognizing disabled options 41 Navigating submenus 42 Under the Apple menu tree 43 Using keyboard shortcut commands 44 Chapter 3: What''s Up, Dock? 45 A Quick Introduction to Your Dock 46 The default icons of the dock 47 Trash talkin'' 49 Opening application menus on the dock 51 Reading dock icon body language 53 Opening files from the dock 54 Customizing Your Dock 54 Adding dock icons 54 Removing an icon from the dock 57 Resizing the dock 58 What should you put on your dock? 58 Setting your dock preferences 60 Chapter 4: Getting to Know Finder and Its Desktop 65 Introducing Finder and Its Minions: The Desktop and Icons 66 Introducing the desktop 66 Bellying up to the toolbar 68 Figuring out what an icon is 71 Identifying your Finder icons in the wild 72 Aliases Are Awesome! 73 Creating aliases 75 Deleting aliases 76 Hunting down an alias''s parent 76 The View(s) from a Window 76 Moving through folders fast in Column view 77 Perusing in Icon view 79 Listless? Try viewing folders as a list 79 Hangin'' in the Gallery (view) 81 What''s next on the (View) menu? 82 Finder on the Menu 84 The actual Finder menu 84 Like a road map: The current folder''s pop-up menu 87 Going places with the Go menu 88 Customizing Finder Windows 90 Adding folders to the sidebar 90 Setting Finder preferences 90 Digging for Icon Data in the Info Window 93 Chapter 5: Delving Even Deeper into Monterey''s Desktop and Finder 97 Cleaning Up Your Desktop Automatically with Stacks 97 Managing your Stacks 100 Quick Actions: Now Playing All Over Monterey 101 Getting the most out of Markup 101 Trimming video without launching an app 104 Do It Quicker with Finder Quick Actions 105 Creating PDFs without launching an app 105 Creating custom Finder Quick Actions 106 Four More Cool Monterey Tricks 107 Shooting screens 107 Dynamic desktop images 109 Part 2: How Stuff Works 111 Chapter 6: Having It Your Way 113 Introducing System Preferences 113 The Desktop & Screen Saver System Preferences Pane 115 The Desktop tab 116 The Screen Saver tab 117 The General System Preferences Pane 118 Adjusting the Keyboard, Mouse, Trackpad, and Other Hardware 121 The Keyboard System Preferences pane 122 The Mouse System Preferences pane 126 The Bluetooth System Preferences pane 127 The Trackpad System Preferences pane 127 The Sound System Preferences Pane 129 Changing sound effects 129 Choosing output and input options 130 Chapter 7: Opening and Saving Files 131 A Quick Primer on Finding Files 132 Understanding the macOS Folder Structure 132 Understanding nested folders 134 From the top: The Computer folder 135 Peeking into the Applications folder 136 Visiting the Library folders 136 Let it be: The System folder 137 There''s no place like Home 137 Your personal library card 139 Saving Your Document Before It''s Too Late 141 Stepping through a basic save 142 Save As versus Duplicate: Different names for the same result 148 Open, Sez Me 150 With drag-and-drop 152 With a Quick Look 152 When your Mac can''t open a file 153 With the application of your choice 154 Chapter 8: File and Folder Management Made Easy 157 Organizing Your Stuff in Folders 157 Files versus folders 158 Organizing your stuff with subfolders 158 Creating new folders 160 Navigating with spring-loaded folders 161 Smart folders 162 Shuffling Files and Folders 164 Moving files and folders 165 Selecting multiple icons 166 Playing the icon name game: Renaming icons 167 Renaming multiple icons at once 168 Compressing files 168 Getting rid of icons 168 The Incredible iCloud+ (and iCloud Drive) 169 Chapter 9: Comprehending the macOS Clipboard 171 Introducing the Clipboard 171 Copying Files and Folders 173 Pasting from the Clipboard 175 Monterey''s Universal Clipboard 175 Part 3: Getting Things Done 177 Chapter 10: Five Terrific Time-Saving Tools 179 With a Quick Look 180 Share and share alike with the Share menu 181 Slide into Slideshow (full-screen) mode 182 Spotlight on Finding Files and Folders Faster 183 Using the Find command 184 Using the Spotlight menu and its keyboard shortcut 186 Blast Off with Mission Control 187 The Mission Control pane: It''s painless 187 Hot corners are hot stuff! 189 Mission Control''s Spaces from 30,000 feet (an overview) 190 Getting around in space(s) 192 Taking Control of Essential Settings 193 Launchpad: The Place for Applications 194 Chapter 11: Organizing Your Life 197 Keeping Track with Calendar 198 Navigating Calendar views 198 Creating calendars 199 Deleting a calendar 200 Creating and managing events 201 Reminders: Protection Against Forgetting 203 Getting started with Reminders 204 To do or not to do: Setting reminders 205 Sharing lists and assigning reminders 206 Everything You Need to Know about Notification Center 207 Tweaking Notification settings 207 Widget management 101 209 Using Notification Center 210 Getting focused 210 Use Notes for Making Notes 211 Take a Quick Note with Quick Note 215 Tracking Productivity with Screen Time 215 Chapter 12: Are You Siri-ous? 217 What Siri Can Do for You 217 Working with Siri 219 Making Siri Your Own 220 Chapter 13: Maps Are Where It''s At 223 Finding Your Current Location with Maps 223 Finding a Person, Place, or Thing 224 Views, Zooms, and Pans 225 Maps and Contacts 227 Time-saving Map Tools: Favorites, Guides, and Recents 228 Favorites 228 Guides 229 Recents 230 Smart Map Tricks 230 Get route maps and driving directions 230 Get walking directions 231 Get directions for public transportation 232 Get traffic info in real time 232 Flyovers and look arounds 232 Do more on the Info sheet 233 Chapter 14: Apps Born in iOS 235 Taking Stock of the Market with Stocks 236 Adding and deleting stocks, funds, and indexes 237 Details, details, details 237 Charting a course 238 Read All about It in News 239 What are your interests? 239 How News works 240 Managing your news 240 Recording Memos with Voice Memos 241 Recording a voice memo 241 Listening to a voice memo 242 Naming a voice memo 243 Trimming a voice memo 243 Automating Repetitive Tasks with Shortcuts 244 Controlling Lights, Locks, and More with Home 245 Part 4: Getting Along with Others 247 Chapter 15: (Inter)Networking 249 Getting Connected to the Internet 250 Your internet service provider and you 251 Plugging in your internet-connection settings 251 Browsing the Web with Safari 253 Owning your toolbar 254 Using the Safari sidebar 255 Checking out Help Center 260 Chapter 16: Dealing with People 261 Collecting Your Contacts 261 Adding contacts 262 Importing contacts from other programs 263 Creating a basic group 264 Setting up a smart group (based on contact criteria) 266 Deleting a group or smart group 266 Sync + Contacts = your contacts everywhere 267 Audio and Video Calls with FaceTime 268 About SharePlay 269 Chapter 17: Communicating with Mail and Messages 271 Sending and Receiving Email with Mail 271 Setting Up Mail 272 A quick overview of the toolbar 272 Composing a new message 274 Sending email from the Contacts app 276 Checking your mail 278 Dealing with spam 279 Mailboxes smart and plain 280 Changing your preferences 282 Sign.