Mac Quick Start Guide

Last week, I started the 2017 version of Macbookpro, pre-installed MacOS High Sierra. First contact with the Mac system, after a week of use, a simple summary of the most common features compared to Windows, quickly get started.

1, the Mac keyboard to achieve home, End, page UP, PAGE down these several keys

Macbookpro keyboard does not have home, End, page UP, PAGE down these keys, however, usually browse the Web, the document also needs:

Home key =fn+ left direction

End Key =fn+ Right direction

pageup=fn+ Upper Direction

pagedown=fn+ Lower Direction

2. Delete Delete key 5 ways to use

Windows keyboard has backspace, delete two keys, and the DELETE key on Macbookpro delete text function is actually equivalent to Windows backspace, and deleted files are not Windows Delete, organized Mac Several uses of the DELETE key, skilled operation to avoid confusion:

The first type: Press the DELETE key to implement the function of backspace on the Windows keyboard, that is, a character before the cursor is deleted (default);

The second type: Press the Fn+delete key to delete a character after the cursor;

The third type: Press the Option+delete key to delete a word before the cursor (valid in English);

The fourth type: Press command+delete key, delete the whole line before the cursor;

The fifth type: Select the file and press Command+delete to delete the file.

3. Common shortcut keys

Windows has a lot of common shortcut keys, the same features some of the Mac has a fast key but the keys are not the same, some do not have shortcut keys:

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Command+shift+3 capture full screen, generate desktop screenshot file

Command+shift+4 chooses the interception content independently, generates the desktop screenshot file, if after executes, then presses the space, may the mouse Select the window interception

If you do not generate a desktop screenshot file, press and hold shift again.

Hide Dock:

After hiding the dock, the program can be stretched down, click Option+command+d Hide, and click Show again. While hidden, the mouse moves to the bottom to display the dock

Terminal implements the functions of the Linux command line CTRL + C:

Linux/unix often use CTRL + C force to stop the execution of the command, terminal is also control+c

Copy, paste, cut, select all, Undo:

Ctrl+c/v/x/a/z,mac is replaced with command+c/v/x/a/z under Windows

Undo is Command+z, Redo (Restore) is command+shift+z, not Windows Ctrl+y

To open the Finder shortcut key:

The Finder feature is similar to Windows Explorer, under Windows is windows+e. But under the Mac, sorry, there really is no shortcut key.

4, common use and settings of Mac

Customizing the Software toolbar:

Finder, Safari, and so on, if the default toolbar is not satisfied, can be customized, right-click to select the custom, drag the tool into or drag out.

For example, the following is the default toolbar, which makes it easy to refer to settings.

The most appropriate and full-screen settings for the window:

　　

Now the green button in the upper left corner of the window is the full screen function by default, as if the version after OS X Yosemite began, before a plus sign is the most appropriate (zoom). If you want to do zoom, click on the green button while holding down option to change back to the original green plus sign.

Another way of zoom operation is to double-click the window title bar, settings can be modified, the following steps:

　　

Settings for the mouse wheel direction:

The first time the MAC is connected to the mouse, the use is called awkward, scrolling direction is completely opposite windows. Checked the scroll wheel. Windows refers to the scroll bar, which refers to the body of the screen. Touch pad two finger swipe refers to the screen body is normal, and windows10 consistent. After all, the rest of the mouse is a scroll wheel, not the same as the Magic Mouse sliding operation, or modified to be consistent with the Windows operating mode is more comfortable:

For example, scroll direction: natural Check to cancel.

However, there is a certain problem with this modification: Trackpad This option is also canceled, the Apple is a bit overbearing, with the trackpad needs to be modified back:

　　

When Safari cancels the download, it automatically deletes the download file:

Sorry, unlike other browsers, cancel the download regardless of whether or not to delete the download record, can not immediately delete the download file, there are only two ways: After a day, Safari quit.

　　

THUNDERBOLT3 and USB type-c are not clear:

It is recommended to view this post directly: http://www.sohu.com/a/210449654_640115

5. Software Prerequisites

With Windows, you need to install some software to improve your usage efficiency.

Mac adds read and write to NTFS mobile hard disk:

Mac on the connection on the mobile hard drive, only to find only read can not write, what ghost.

After Baidu, consider the following scenario: A. Mobile hard disk format as exFAT, but my hard disk because it is a mechanical hard disk, exfat mainly for flash, online found using exFAT have lost data, the program can only be dropped. B. Modify the Mac to open the native NTFS read and write, but consider the stability of the system uncertainties and so on. Finally, it is implemented by Tuxera NTFS for Mac. Purchase of genuine software.

　　

Management of compression software for Mac under RAR:

Windows can use WinRAR, how to use, we all know haha. You cannot unzip the RAR by default under Mac. However, the download of RAR for Mac OS X from WinRAR official website only command line, and the integration of other compressed package also need to consider other scenarios, the operation is too cumbersome. Gossip Less, this is also the purchase of genuine software Betterzip.

　　

Offline Blogging tools:

Windows can be through the Windows Live Writer, word implementation, the Mac did not find, tried Marsedit, Blogo are not, mweb function too cumbersome is not purely offline blog tool, this does not cnblogs this blog is written online: ( If there are good tools (preferably free, or not expensive), welcome recommendation.

Mac Quick Start Guide