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When giving a talk with a PowerPoint presentation, you may want to display the cursor on the screen to use it as a pointer, or you may want to hide it completely. There is an option to switch between these two modes. It is accessible by right-clicking(*) during the slide show. You can also type (*) if you don't have a two-button mouse, use control-click. |
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-AOften you want to give a new document a name very similar to those already stored in the folder where it needs to go. In the save dialog box, click one of the already existing documents to copy its name into the save name field:
This is useful when you need to see something on a window that happens to be mostly hidden by other windows, however you do not want to bring that window to the front or activate its application. Hold down the command key and drag the window: it will remain behind the other ones and you can immediately continue to work where you were.
These are all holding data, they are data volumes. Therefore you should not remove them while there is still some application working with them. For that reason, there is no physical eject button on most Apple peripherals: you have to tell the Finder to eject the data volume and then the Finder will instruct the hardware to eject the volume. If the volume still has open files on it, the Finder will tell you so.
Should a CD get stuck for some reason (unreadable, damaged, ...) then do this:
1. shut down your computer
2. start it up again, but immediately hold down the (left) mouse button, and keep it down. This will eject all removable media no matter what else ever happened.
this is done by first pressing an accent key while holding down the option-key and then pressing the letter on which you want the accent to appear. Example: to get "ê" you first type the letter "i" while holding down the option-key, then type the letter "e". But why press an "i" to get a circumflex? It is easy to remember these accent-giving letters: they are those letters that most often carry the accent in the languages where they are most used. This is the table (see also keyboard shortcuts):
| Accent name | examples | key sequence |
| accent aigu | é ó ú | option-e then letter |
| accent grave | à è ù | option-` then letter |
| accent circonflexe | î ê ô | option-i then letter |
| umlaut | ü ë ö | option-u then letter |
| tilde | ñ ã õ | option-n then letter |
| Name | Purpose | key sequence |
| line break | take a new line but not a new paragraph | shift-return |
| non-breaking space | insert a space without allowing a split over two lines, e.g. to keep an initial and a name together as in "J. Chirac" | option-space |
these characters work in nearly every application.
to select everything to the right of the cursor, drag the I-beam cursor down and slightly to the right.
This is faster and more accurate than dragging all the way horizontally to the right.
The same applies for selecting everything to the left: drag the cursor up and slightly to the left.
to go to the next field, type tab
if the field's contents get highlighted, you can just type over them, you do not have to select the contents first.
