OS X Mountain Lion For Dummies

Conventions Used in This Book

To get the most out of this book, you need to know how I do things and why. Here are a few conventions I use in this book to make your life easier:

When I want you to open an item in a menu, I write something like “Choose File⇒Open,” which means, “Pull down the File menu and choose the Open command.”

Stuff you’re supposed to type appears in bold type, like this.

Sometimes an entire a sentence is in boldface, as you see when I present a numbered list of steps. In those cases, I leave the bold off what you’re supposed to type, like this.

Web addresses, programming code (not much in this book), and things that appear on-screen are shown in a special monofont typeface, like this. (If you’re reading an ebook version of this book, web addresses are clickable links.)

For keyboard shortcuts, I write something like +A, which means to hold down the key (the one with ...