MacWorld Secrets (3rd Edition)/Macworld Bonus CD, 6:96.iso/SECRETS Software Sampler/Label Secrets Pro 1.0/Label Secrets Pro/Label Secrets Pro.rsrc/STR#_130.txt

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Then save one of each style

secrets in this thing? We

ENTIRE desktop with a

Photoshop: (1) Choose the

You’ve certainly heard this

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Faxed -back info: 800-505-0171

Clean Up from the Special

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in one window. You want to

printer, don’t bother

System folders on the same

folder in the System folder.

If you don’t use Recent

Take 20 minutes out today

for one or two projects.

prediction effects, try ending

Both the Map and the Date &

But could somebody PLEASE

Each Apple StyleWriter driver

 Never turned anything in

sleep with a keystroke. Either

Either you’ve had “Mac

In any Drag-and-Drop-savvy

If there’s only 1 of something

of the same program, which

Launch System 7.5’s Find

usually covered up by other

cannot be found.”

Well, consider the initials

Bummer.

start it up from its internal

creepy built-in sound effect?

within a single cell! Just

entire Fonts folder from the

2.6, you probably won’t have

far safer and more effective

command out of Word 6!

Don’t forget that you can

                       testing,

expanded folder to the

Check your General Controls

you can move text without

answering machine?

Behold the mighty Enter

with one Label. When you have

Keep your hands relaxed

software suite called

with weird symbols and

 “The Internet? I’ll tell you

acting up again? Open the





           “Mac FAQs”

items are locked.

the startup screen in the

them all off by pressing

program as a file-info

and you want to jump to

working in the Finder without

(1) Hold the Option key...

Open your favorite graphic

neat secret. Name a movie

Just press the Option

In the “FIND” blank, type

disk? Maybe it’s being shared

feature, but it makes your

and click on the words “Sample

quotes (“”), turn on the “smart

defragmenting software. Back up

using? Choose About This

in a graphics program,

bar to the left until you can

standard Open File or Save

standard Open File or Save

standard Open File or Save

some white space from a

from an electronic bulletin

using the Copy As Picture

menu, choose Stop Printing.

Find button, over and over,

key will display a magnified

map will scroll around the

a more consistent transfer of

working on, use the Save As

but you‘re not sure what!

peeling, get a can of spray-on

name,” you no longer have to

a plain black box (letter b).

or Save File dialog box, press

who says “Welcome! You’ve

(from your System disks) has a

In the Finder, highlight a

disk drive. Command-Shift-2

thickness settings: one for

Macintosh Secrets” are both

telecom program and type ATSO=1

screech when it’s connecting.

Chances are darned good that

when the Mac is done starting

You can name a file anything

slipping off your main one?

the startup monitor (that shows

by a cheery sound recording

connectors ($50 each) if you’re

Just open your Apple Menu Items

just prevent extensions from

adjacent rows by

Hold down Option as you

the control panel). Now erase



Calculate Folder Sizes.  Be

If you add and remove stuff

Once you have found some

paste into Word, for example),

folder. Give it a name like

Pretty long. Try renaming it

ongoing projects there, and

for items whose Kind contains

define one style to

name (use the Define Styles

aliases of them, and copy them

Hold mouse down on the version

eject a floppy: select its

with two independent views of

arrange icons in the Icon or

Click the desktop. Press Option

snap to an invisible grid. Or,

Whenever you’ve opened a

the Finder. Now copy a lot of

You can close all Finder

To start up with a clean

working, you can press

be able to open the files. Open

Press Command-Option-

No matter how many layers of

Up Arrow closes whatever

(Size, Date, Kind or Name),

Press Command-Option-Right

A CD-ROM disc

7.5’s Shutdown program (in your

Ask a friend to double-click

number 10 before number 2!

Put your monitor in 16-color

If there are two Finder

These are basic, but great:

that come from different disks

Does it take longer to open

Any time you open a folder

the Trash? There’s an easy

If you put a locked file into

backed memory that stores the

icon. Inside, you’ll see icons

file sharing, make an alias of

when you choose Finder from

David Pogue’s Mac techno-

word Mac unless it modifies

To do so, copy a stripped-

Your color Mac will seem

graphics PICT file. Either

of another one, combining

Did you know you can copy

right now. Throw away

It’s right there in the

down, remember that you might

Open your word processor. Use

desk accessory. Open it, and

it shows up as ordinary

System 7.5 Scrapbook, and

to keep changing the Mac’s

double-click any one of

leave the font selected for

control panel. Pre-System 7.5,

by a one-year, on-site repair

Ever wonder why the one sound

You can use PowerPCheck,

You won’t believe how fast

have to wait for a full second

Apple menu! Have you tried

menus, using the Commands

When starting up, you can

Don’t you hate when the Mac

you’ve most recently closed.

on the numeric keypad) to jump

the mouse. Select a paragraph,

If you have a Mac IIci, set the

the original System 7.5

From your Control Panels

Here’s how to cheat at the

an exclusive bonus that comes

Eject the disk with the Eject

pressing Command and Shift,

there’s no better book than

In Adobe Photoshop, press

Open the main QuicKeys

Launch Disinfectant (included

Type the first letter of an

You can erase two disks

you’ve already ejected?

The very, VERY first Mac,

Do it right now! Turn the mouse

Until they invented it, you

program, you can paste or

Using the Find program

In Microsoft programs, you can

Draw a new icon in a painting

Just because you’re downloading

beachball cursor — and then

File Sharing is on. (It’s a

For real! You can reclaim it,

      No trick today!



The Macintosh 128k, when it

trouble reading some

• AppleTalk

utility program to partition

every morning? Use the

for feet and inches marks. So

The “Fast Save” option is nice,

The size of a space is

the required program is on your

are almost exactly identical!

Need to design a screen that’s

else in the house picks up the

tall, thin strip if you want.

Controls control panel.

cursor to area you want to zoom

Press Option when choosing a

phrase. Use Option-hyphen for

A function key is one of

Ever need to take a

When you’re creating fractions,

In Microsoft programs and the

arrowhead on anything (arc,

How to find empty records in

Option-click the title bar

PowerBook? That’s the PowerBook

When you play Spectre, you

Open Page Setup (File menu.)

Word 5 document to another.

Yes, Label Secrets Pro has

it should be, you may have some

annoying “text with layout“ or

If you want to prevent two

(Option-q and Option-’). But

were projects named Golden,

To add a keyboard shortcut

without changing any others,

When your cursor is in a

Any Claris program: Hold

actually make a change. Once

Aliases don’t work

trouble using OCR with a

Hold down the Command

type a backwards apostrophe,

Paste a bunch of rulers,

Virus checkers go CRAZY when

This Label Secrets thing didn’t

Ever wonder what this option

Whenever you get one

programmers’ sense

when you hit the Power button?

This is Label Secret #35!

In Progress

in System 7. Use version 4.1

message to several recipients.

cables. Use the light

If you have System 7.5.1 or

press Command-S at the

When you click the Zoom Box,

and Fill Down

back? No problem.

Here’s a good use

Mac if all the gadgets

IS YOUR APPLE-MENU ICON

Our publisher switched us to

Your monitor is probably

Is the Finder failing to

and control panels to load

TeachText. Double-click

with a SCSI cable.

If it shimmers, it may be

Drag-and-Drop feature? Note

(no quotes) in your Note Pad,

In System 7.1, you can have

that annoying Summary box?

printouts are temporarily

From an America Online

later, you can drag an icon

The golden rule: you can mix,



go away if you do these three:

Views control panel and turn

Join a Mac users’ group!

If you press Option when

Mac, your Label menu will show