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Mac 101 and Navigation

November 16, 2007 ⋅  Email this post ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment

If you’ve been using Windows most of your adult life and in your law practice and have just now opened an impeccably packaged Mac that promises to turn your world upside down, stop right now and Figure Out Navigation. Don’t let all the excitement, anticipation and general good feeling be drained out of you by your frustration with Windows commands that don’t work on a Mac. You’ll curse the day you placed the order, and that’s a very unnecessary thing to do.

Learn how to navigate now! Get familiar with your machine. Apple has several good tutorials on their website. Take the time to read them before you begin doing any serious work on your new machine. You’ll avoid the second guessing and wasted hours trying to fit square pegs into round holes.

Read Apple’s Mac 101 tutorial. It’ll get you up to speed on the features and basic commands you’ll use with your Mac. There’s also a tutorial for switchers to help you migrate your files from your PC to your Mac.

These tutorials will help you, and you’ll thank me later.