MacBook Pro Basics Turning on your Macbook Pro To turn on your MacBook, press the power button in the top right corner of your keyboard. Make sure not to hold the button down. You'll hear a tone when the MacBook is first turned on - don't touch the power button after you hear this tone or the computer will shut down again. Using the Mouse on your MacBook The MacBook is equipped with a special trackpad instead of a mouse. The MacBook trackpad works just like a standard mouse, except you use your fingers to 'track' the mouse icon on the screen rather than rolling the mouse around the select items. Using one finger on the trackpad moves the mouse pointed, but using two fingers allows you to 'scroll' up and down on the screen. Instead of a traditional button or two or more buttons, the trackpad allows you to use your fingers to select, click and double-click. Just press the trackpad itself like you would a mouse button. See the gestures chart to the right. Sleep Mode and Shutting Down When you finish working on your MacBook, you can choose to 'put it to sleep' or shut it down. If you only plan to be away from your MacBook for a short time, you can put it in sleep mode. This means you can quickly turn the MacBook back on ('wake it up') and by pass the whole startup process. Go apple icon at the top left of your screen. Then choose 'sleep' from the drop down menu. When it is time to wake up your MacBook, simply open it up or press the power button or any other key on the keyboard. Shutting Down Your MacBook If you don't want to put your MacBook to sleep or if you are planning on being away from it for a few hours, you should shut down your MacBook completely.

To shut down your MacBook, choose the Apple menu and click 'Shut Down' from the drop-down menu. Icons Represent the Files on your Computer Icons look like to item that they represent. For example, your hard disc volume icon looks like a hard drive, a text document looks like a piece of paper and a folder icon looks like a folder where you store papers. The Dock holds your favourite apps, documents and

more The Dock is the bar of icons that sits at the bottom or side of your screen. It provides easy access to many of the apps that come with your Mac (like Mail, Safari and Messages). You can add your own apps, documents and folders to the Dock, too. When an application is open, the Dock displays an illuminated dash beneath the application's icon. To make any currently running application the active one, click its icon in the Dock. Keyboard Shortcuts Common keyboard shortcuts that you may be used to using which will be different on your MacBook Pro. (Complete lists can be found online) Copy Command-C Paste Command-V Cut Command-X Undo Command-Z Select All Command-A Print Command-P Save Command-S How to Ctrl-Alt-Delete on a Mac OSX is a very stable system but from time to time an application may stop responding, requiring you to manually shut it down. The Mac doesn’t have a delete key, meaning the time honoured Ctrl-Alt-Del combination won't work, so use instead Cmd-Alt-Esc to bring up the Force Quit window. Now select the problematic application from the list - which will often have a message next to it - and click the blue Force Quit button. This menu can also be accessed by clicking on the Apple icon in the top left corner, then selecting Force Quit from the drop-down menu.

How to Take a Screen Shot In Windows, taking a screenshot is as easy as hitting the Prt Scr button and then pasting the resulting image into an image editor. Your MacBook Pro automatically saves your screen shot to the desktop when you hit Command + Shift + 3. Command + Shift + 4 lets you choose a particular section of the screen to clip. Alternative to Windows Explorer for Finding Files Finder is your MacBook Pro's default file manager. It's similar to Windows Explorer but with some differences. The Finder application can be found in your Dock and the icon looks like this:

First things that I found tricky... How do I scroll? Use two fingers on the trackpad and move them up. This will scroll through your screen. How do I right click? Click on the trackpad with two fingers to access 'right-click' options. How do minimise my window? On our Dell laptops the window maximise and minimise options where in the top right corner. On your MacBook Pro the maximise and minimise options are on the top left hand area of your screen. There is no 'Start Menu'. To access things that were in your Start Menu on the Dell laptops you can either go to the Apple icon in the top left corner of your screen (for shut down etc) and access most other things from the 'Dock' at the bottom of your screen. You can also use the Launchpad icon which looks like this: Attaching the power cord. Don't be alarmed by the magnetic pull from the power adapter plug - the BackBook Pro's power cord is attached with a weak magnetic force to allow for each 'breakaway'. Delete Routines You can't hold down the delete key to delete things rapidly. When typing, instead of using Backspace to delete one character at a time, use Command-delete to delete lines at a time. You can use Option-delete to delete previously typed words one at a time.