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| Why two Mac evangelists wrote this book | |
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| Choosing and Using | |
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| Preparing to do windows | |
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| Do you really need to "do Windows"? | |
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| You probably do need Windows if ... | |
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| Is your Macintosh ready? | |
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| How should you do Windows? | |
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| Choosing your Windows hardware | |
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| What is Windows (really)? | |
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| The once and future Windows | |
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| Some Windows basics | |
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| Windows versions, pros and cons | |
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| Setting Up Your PC | |
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| Look at the back of the computer | |
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| Keyboard and mouse connectors | |
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| Serial, parallel, SCSI, and USB | |
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| Serial ports | |
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| Parallel ports | |
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| Keeping serial and parallel straight | |
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| USB ports | |
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| SCSI connections, if you have them! | |
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| Expansion card connections | |
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| Joysticks | |
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| Starting Up and Using Disks | |
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| Starting up in Windows | |
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| The Windows Desktop | |
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| Inside "My Computer" | |
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| Disk drive letters | |
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| Drive icons: what's what? | |
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| Drive C: and the Windows system folder | |
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| Where's the disk? | |
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| Clues in the File menu | |
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| Initializing and erasing disks | |
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| Ejecting: it's not a drag | |
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| Restart, sleep, or shut down | |
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| The Keyboard | |
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| Special keys | |
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| Keyboard shortcuts: in Command or in Control | |
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| Application keyboard shortcuts | |
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| Customizing the keyboard | |
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| PC keyboard emulation on a Mac | |
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| The Mouse | |
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| The amazing two-headed mouse | |
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| Selecting and deselecting | |
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| The right mouse button | |
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| Right-clicking and property sheets | |
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| The IntelliMouse wheel button | |
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| Customizing the mouse | |
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| Mouse emulation on a Mac | |
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| Controlling the Desktop | |
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| Anatomy of a Window | |
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| Windows in Windows | |
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| A typical Desktop folder window | |
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| Minimize button | |
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| Maximize and Restore buttons | |
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| Minimizing and maximizing document windows | |
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| Close button | |
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| Close vs. Quit | |
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| The Control menu | |
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| The Desktop folder window menu bar | |
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| The status bar | |
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| Arranging files in a Desktop folder window | |
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| Options for opening windows | |
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| Closing many windows | |
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| Moving a window | |
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| Locked windows | |
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| Applying a view to all windows (Windows 98) | |
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| Keeping the views you choose (Windows 98) | |
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| The browser interface (Windows 98) | |
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| The Internet Explorer interface (Windows 98) | |
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| The Taskbar and Start Menu | |
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| Arranging windows on the Windows Desktop | |
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| Taskbar icons: Tray interesting | |
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| Taskbar Options | |
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| The Start menu: the Apple menu incognito | |
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| The Toolbars | |
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| Displaying Desktop folder window toolbars | |
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| Application toolbars | |
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| Dialog box toolbars | |
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| Make your own toolbars in the Taskbar | |
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| The Links toolbar | |
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| Trashing: the Recycle Bin | |
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| Putting files in the Recycle Bin | |
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| Deleting automatically | |
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| Get rid of the warning | |
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| Emptying the Recycle Bin | |
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| Restoring files | |
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| Limiting the size of the Recycle Bin | |
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| Moving and Copying | |
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| Selected files stay selected | |
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| Standard cursor icons and what they mean | |
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| Moving and copying files on the same disk | |
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| Copying files from one disk to another disk | |
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| Moving files from one disk to another disk | |
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| Using "Send To" | |
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| My Briefcase | |
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| Refreshing after moving or copying | |
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| Spring-loaded folders | |
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| Running out of disk space while copying | |
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| Duplicating an entire disk | |
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| Accessories and Control Panels | |
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| Display Settings | |
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| Important note | |
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| Desktop property sheets | |
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| Changing the background pattern or picture | |
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| Changing accent color and text settings | |
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| Changing color depth and resolution | |
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| Testing your monitor changes | |
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| Applying the monitor changes | |
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| About dual monitors | |
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| Control Panels | |
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| Control Panels in Windows | |
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| General Controls | |
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| Date/Time and Map | |
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| Regional Settings for foreign styles | |
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| Modem, PPP, and TCP/IP | |
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| Monitors | |
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| ColorSyne System Profile | |
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| QuickTime Settings | |
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| Sounds | |
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| Audio settings, volum | |
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| ODBC | |
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| Others | |
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| Mac Desk Accessories a la Windows | |
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| Locating Windows accessories | |
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| Mac: Calculator | |
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| Mac: Video Player | |
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| Mac: AppleCD Audio Player | |
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| Mac: Key Caps | |
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| Mac: Chooser | |
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| Mac: Note Pad | |
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| Mac: SimpleText | |
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| Mac: Clipboard and Scrapbook | |
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| Mac: Stickies | |
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| Mac: About This Computer | |
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| Mac: System Profiler | |
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| Customizing the Start Menu | |
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| Using the keyboard to navigate the Start Menu | |
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| Putting new things in the Start Menu | |
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| Rearranging items in the Start Menu (Windows 95/98) | |
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| Deleting items from the Start Menu | |
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| Applications, Folders, and Files | |
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| Installing and Using Applications | |
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| Can you install this application? | |
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| Installing on application | |
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| Where the application gets stored | |
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| Putting an application alias in the Start Menu | |
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| Memory and applications | |
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| Launching an application | |
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| Launching an application in the background | |
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| Cycling through open applications and windows | |
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| Quitting an application | |
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| The Startup folder | |
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| Uninstalling applications | |
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| Creating Folders, Files, and Aliases | |
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| Creating a new folder | |
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| Creating and saving a new file | |
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| Creating aliases (shortcuts) | |
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| File Formats and their Icons | |
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| Windows file formats | |
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| Windows file icons | |
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| Application files and their icons | |
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| System files and their icons | |
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| Paths and Long File Names | |
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| The tree structure | |
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| Paths | |
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| Path names and title bars | |
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| Extensions and long file names | |
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| Long file names and paths | |
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| Renaming files and folders | |
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| Renaming numbered files | |
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| DOS has a short memory | |
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| Finding File Information | |
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| Getting file information | |
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| Locking and unlocking a file | |
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| Hiding or showing a file | |
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| Finding files | |
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| Multiple searches at the same time | |
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| Using a found file | |
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| Sorting the list | |
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| Open containing folder | |
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| Saving a search | |
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| Showing all the files | |
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| Finding other sorts of items | |
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| Going Back and Forth | |
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| Mounting PC Media and Reading PC files | |
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| Mounting removable media | |
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| Mounting PC CDs on a Mac | |
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| The Mac's File Exchange control panel | |
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| Using File Exchange (OS 8.5 and up) to translate files | |
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| Using Mac OS Easy Open (OS 8.0 and 8.1) to translate files | |
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| Other file translators | |
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| Transferring Files | |
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| Why won't some files open? | |
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| Generic Windows icons | |
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| Create and name those Mac files correctly! | |
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| System-specific file formats | |
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| What about Windows files on a Mac? | |
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| Saving EPS files on the PC for the Mac | |
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| Know your application formats | |
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| Getting Macintosh files onto a PC | |
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| Making a DOS-formatted floppy disk | |
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| Making a DOS-formatted Zip or Jaz disk | |
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| Checklist for transferring files | |
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| Sending Email Attachments | |
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| Preparing files as email attachments | |
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| Compressing files for sending online | |
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| Disabling helper applications | |
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| Understanding attachments and encoding | |
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| Sending MIME-encoded files | |
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| Fonts | |
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| Font technology basics | |
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| Windows and TrueType fonts | |
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| Installing or deleting TrueType fonts | |
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| Windows and PostScript fonts | |
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| Installing or deleting PostScript fonts | |
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| Viewing your fonts in Windows | |
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| Font management in Windows | |
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| Know the font name equivalents | |
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| Don't use system fonts if the file will go cross-platform | |
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| Separate your non-sharable fonts | |
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| Use Acrobat PDF files when possible | |
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| Font style linking | |
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| Converting fonts | |
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| The rules of using fonts cross-platform | |
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| Color | |
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| Macintosh images on PCs | |
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| Computer "system palettes" | |
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| Dithered colors | |
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| The Windows system palette | |
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| The Mac system palette | |
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| The Macintosh and Windows palettes compared | |
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| Macintosh color calibration | |
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| Gamma | |
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| Setting a color profile in Windows 98 | |
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| Advanced color topics | |
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| Printing | |
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| Setting up a printer in Windows | |
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| Printing a file in Windows | |
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| Printing a folder list--not! | |
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| General note on all cross-platform printing | |
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| Windows printers and PostScript | |
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| Saving EPS files for printing in Windows | |
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| Printing from a Mac to a Windows printer | |
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| Sharing a Windows printer | |
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| Printing Windows files on a Mac printer | |
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| "Print to file" | |
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| Summary of printing files | |
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| Extras | |
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| Multiple Users on one PC | |
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| User profiles maintain your Desktop settings | |
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| Create Desktop profiles (Windows 95/98) | |
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| Logging on as a different user | |
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| Deleting user profiles | |
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| Preventing Problems | |
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| Read this before you crash | |
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| Emergency disks | |
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| Backup Windows 98 system files | |
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| NT repair disk | |
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| Back up your files | |
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| Fragmentation and disk errors | |
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| Keeping the disk trim | |
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| Viruses | |
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| The Stuff at the End | |
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| Index | |
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| About the authors | |
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| Colophon | |