22. Automating Your Mac

If you’ve ever found yourself performing a sequence of actions over and over on your Mac (click, drag, click, type; click, drag, click, type), you can benefit from Automator. If you have to rack your brain trying to remember the 13 dozen steps you need to take to prepare your monthly report for publications, you can benefit from Automator. If you want to make your computer work the way you want it to, you too can benefit from Automator.

Getting to Know Automator

Automator is, simply put, a system of building blocks for creating custom features for your applications—functions that the original developers might never even have envisioned. As an added bonus, it’s also quite easy to use! In fact, in just a few minutes you’ll ...

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