Lesson 6. Personalize Your Mac to Meet Your Needs

GoalsDiscover how you can customize your Mac to suit your work style
Understand the differences between System settings and settings for specific applications
Learn about the security options you can customize

Now that you've learned all the basics of the various applications and system settings on your Mac, discover how to customize them to suit your particular way of working. Would you prefer to have your Dock on the side of the screen instead of at the bottom? Do you like a brightly colored Desktop? Do you want to customize the insides of certain windows? Color-code your files? Make the icons and text bigger? Or perhaps you want to work with the security options to make your computer a little ...

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