My New Mac, Snow Leopard Edition, 2nd Edition

Using Shortcut Menus

Pull-down menus can overwhelm you with too many choices. To display a limited list of useful commands, use shortcut menus, which appear when you right-click an item. For example, if you want to delete a file, right-click the filename, and when the shortcut menu appears, select Move to Trash.

To see how shortcut menus work, try this:

1. Click the Finder icon on the Dock. The Finder window appears.

2. Click Applications in the left pane of the Finder window.

3. Move the mouse over an icon, such as the System Preferences icon, and right-click the mouse. (If you're using a laptop, hold down two fingers on the trackpad or hold down the ctrl key and press the trackpad button to simulate a right-click.) A shortcut menu appears, listing commands, ...