Introduction 1 Foolish Assumptions 1 About This Book 2 Icons Used in This Book 3 Beyond the Book 4 Where to Go from Here 4 Part 1: Getting Started with Your iMac 5 Chapter 1: Okay, This Machine Looks Really, Really Weird 7 Intel iMac or M1 iMac -- That Is the Question 8 An Introduction to the Beast 9 Major parts of your major appliance 9 Important hidden stuff 14 Choosing a Home for Your New Pet 15 Picking the right location 15 Considering the convenience factor 16 Unpacking and Connecting 17 Unpacking your iMac For Dummies 17 Connecting cables like a true nerd 18 Discovering All the Cool Things You Can Do 19 What software do I get? 19 Looking forward to fun on the Internet 20 Applications that rock 21 Would you like to play a game? 22 Stuff You Oughta Buy Right Now 22 Chapter 2: Life! Give My iMac Life! 25 Throwing the Big Leaf Switch 25 Mark''s Favorite Signs of a Healthy iMac 26 Harriet, It''s Already Asking Me Questions! 27 Setting up macOS Monterey 28 Registering your iMac 29 Importing Documents and Data from Your Old Mac 29 Manually Importing Documents and Data from Windows 31 Chapter 3: The Basics Behind macOS Monterey 33 Your Own Personal Operating System 34 The Monterey Desktop 34 Check out that Control Center 36 Wait a Second: Where the Heck Are the Mouse Buttons? 39 Launching and Quitting Applications with Aplomb 42 Performing Tricks with Finder Windows 45 Viewing your stuff 45 Scrolling in and resizing windows 46 Minimizing and restoring windows 47 Moving and zooming windows 48 Closing windows 49 Juggling Folders and Icons 50 A field observer''s guide to icons 50 Selecting items 52 Copying items 54 Moving things from place to place 54 Duplicating in a jiffy 55 Using Finder Tabs 56 Keystrokes to Fame and Fortune 57 Special keys on the keyboard 57 Using the Finder and application keyboard shortcuts 58 Speeding Things Up with Shortcuts 59 Home, Sweet Home Folder 60 Working with Mission Control 62 Switching Desktops with Spaces 63 Personalizing Your Desktop 64 Taking Control of Your iMac 66 Customizing the Dock 67 Adding applications and extras to the Dock 68 Keeping track with Stacks 69 Using Desktop Stacks 69 Using Dock Stacks 69 Resizing the Dock 71 What''s with the Trash? 71 All You Really Need to Know about Printing 72 And Just in Case You Need Help 74 The Monterey built-in Help system 74 The Apple web-based support center 75 Magazines 75 Local Mac user groups 75 Part 2: Shaking Hands with macOS 77 Chapter 4: What''s New in Monterey? 79 Shortcuts Hit Your iMac 80 Let''s Get Focused 81 Putting Tags to Work 82 Hiding Email the iCloud Way 83 FaceTime Over the Web? 83 Chapter 5: A Nerd''s Guide to System Preferences 85 An Explanation -- without Jargon, No Less 86 Locating That Certain Special Setting 88 Popular Preferences Panes Explained 89 The Displays pane 90 The Desktop & Screen Saver pane 91 Mission Control preferences 93 The General pane 95 The Energy Saver pane 97 The Dock & Menu Bar pane 98 The Sharing pane 100 The Time Machine pane 101 Apple ID preferences 102 Notifications & Focus preferences 104 Chapter 6: Searching Amidst iMac Chaos 107 Doing a Basic Search 108 How Cool Is That? Discovering What Spotlight Can Do 111 Expanding Your Search Horizons 112 Customizing Spotlight to Your Taste 114 Chapter 7: Putting Common Apps to Work 117 Remind Me to Use Reminders 118 Taking Notes the Monterey Way 121 Staying Current with Notification Center 123 Introducing the Maps Application 126 Switching Views in Maps 128 Getting Directions Over Yonder 129 Creating and Using Guides 130 Catching Up on News 132 Using Favorites and Channels 133 Part 3: Connecting and Communicating 135 Chapter 8: Let''s Go on Safari! 137 Pretend You''ve Never Used This Thing 137 Visiting Websites 139 Navigating the Web 141 Configuring Your Home Page and Start Page 144 Adding and Using Bookmarks 145 Working with the Reading List 148 Downloading Files 149 Using History 150 Tabs Are Your Browsing Friends 151 Printing Web Pages 153 Protecting Your Privacy 154 Yes, there are such things as bad cookies 154 Banishing pesky iCloud Keychain passwords 156 Handling ancient history 156 Setting notifications 157 Avoiding those @*!^%$ pop-up ads 157 Chapter 9: Expanding Your Horizons with iCloud 159 So How Does iCloud Work, Anyway? 160 Moving, Saving, and Opening iCloud Documents 161 Putting Handoff to Work 162 Expanding Your Horizons with Sidecar 163 Configuring iCloud 163 Managing Your iCloud Storage 165 Chapter 10: Creating a Multiuser iMac 167 Once Upon a Time (an Access Fairy Tale) 168 Big-Shot Administrator Stuff 169 Deciding who needs what access 169 Adding users 170 Modifying user accounts 172 I banish thee, mischievous user! 174 Setting up login items and managing access 176 Tackling Mundane Chores for the Multiuser iMac 181 Logging in and out of Monterey For Dummies 181 Interesting stuff about sharing stuff 184 Encrypting your Home folder can be fun 185 Chapter 11: Working Well with Networks 187 What Exactly Is the Network Advantage? 188 Should You Go Wired or Wireless? 189 Be a Pal: Share Your Internet! 191 Using your iMac as a sharing device 191 Using a dedicated Internet-sharing device 191 What Do I Need to Connect? 192 Wireless connections 192 Wired connections 197 Connecting to the Network 200 Sharing stuff nicely with others 201 Use Your Firewall! 203 Chapter 12: Hooking Up with Handy Helpers 207 Connecting Printers 207 USB printers 208 Network printers 210 Connecting Scanners 211 Using Photo Booth 212 Conversing with FaceTime 214 Sending Instant Messages Across the Network 216 Part 4: Living the Digital Life 219 Chapter 13: The Multimedia Joys of Music and TV 221 What Can I Play in Music? 222 Playing Digital Audio Files 223 Finding songs in your Music library 227 Removing old music from the library 227 Keeping Slim Whitman and Slim Shady Apart: Organizing with Playlists 228 Know Your Songs 230 Setting the song information automatically 231 Setting or changing the song information manually 231 Ripping Audio Files 232 Tweaking the Audio for Your Ears 233 A New Kind of Radio Station 234 Tuning in your own stations 235 Radio stations in your playlists 235 Creating a custom Music Radio station 236 iSending iStuff to iPhone and iPad 237 Burning Music to Shiny Plastic Circles 238 Feasting on Music Visuals 239 Exercising Parental Authority 239 Watching Video with TV 241 Buying Digital Media the Apple Way 242 Chapter 14: Focusing on Photos 245 Delving into Photos 245 Working with Images in Photos 248 Import images 101 248 Organize mode: Organizing and sorting your images 250 Edit mode: Removing and fixing stuff the right way 257 Exploring iCloud Photos 262 Putting My Photo Stream and iCloud Shared Albums to Work 263 Chapter 15: Making Film History with iMovie 265 Shaking Hands with the iMovie Window 266 A Bird''s-Eye View of Moviemaking 269 Importing the Building Blocks 270 Pulling in video clips 270 Making use of still images 272 Importing and adding audio from all sorts of places 272 Building the Cinematic Basics 275 Adding clips to your movie 275 Marking clips 276 Removing clips from your movie 277 Reordering clips in your movie 277 Editing clips in iMovie 278 Transitions for the masses 279 Even Gone with the Wind had titles 280 Adding maps and backgrounds 281 Creating an Honest-to-Goodness Movie Trailer 281 Browsing Your Video Library 283 Sharing Your Finished Classic 284 Chapter 16: Recording Your Hits with GarageBand 285 Shaking Hands with Your Band 286 Composing Made Easy 288 Adding tracks 289 Choosing loops 291 Resizing, repeating, and moving loops 294 Using the Arrangement track 296 Tweaking the settings for a track 297 Sharing Your Songs 299 Creating song files in Music 300 Exporting a project 301 Burning an audio CD 301 Part 5: Getting Productive with Your iMac 303 Chapter 17: Desktop Publishing with Pages 305 Creating a New Pages Document 306 Opening an Existing Pages Document 307 Saving Your Work 308 Touring the Pages Window 309 Entering and Editing Text 310 Using Text, Shapes, and Graphics Boxes 3.