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• Cover
• Introduction
• About This Book
• Foolish Assumptions
• Icons Used in This Book
• Beyond the Book
• Where to Go from Here
• Part 1: macOS Basics
• Chapter 1: macOS Catalina 101 (Prerequisites: None)
• Gnawing to the Core of macOS
• A Safety Net for the Absolute Beginner (or Any User)
• Not Just a Beatles Movie: Help and the Help Menu
• Chapter 2: Desktop and Windows and Menus (Oh My!)
• Touring Finder and Its Desktop
• Anatomy of a Window
• Dialog Dealie-Boppers
• Working with Windows
• Menu Basics
• Chapter 3: What’s Up, Dock?
• A Quick Introduction to Your Dock
• Customizing Your Dock
• Chapter 4: Getting to Know Finder and Its Desktop
• Introducing Finder and Its Minions: The Desktop and Icons
• Aliases Are Awesome!
• The View(s) from a Window
• Finder on the Menu
• Customizing Finder Windows
• Digging for Icon Data in the Info Window
• Chapter 5: Delving Even Deeper into Catalina’s Desktop and Finder
• Cleaning Up Your Desktop Automatically with Stacks
• Quick Actions: Now Playing All Over Catalina
• Do It Quicker with Finder Quick Actions
• Four More Cool Catalina Tricks
• Part 2: How Stuff Works
• Chapter 6: Having It Your Way
• Introducing System Preferences
• Putting a Picture on the Desktop
• Setting Up a Screen Saver
• Giving Buttons, Menus, and Windows a Makeover
• Adjusting the Keyboard, Mouse, Trackpad, and Other Hardware
• Styling Your Sound
• Chapter 7: Opening and Saving Files
• A Quick Primer on Finding Files
• Understanding the macOS Folder Structure
• Saving Your Document Before It’s Too Late
• Open, Sez Me
• Chapter 8: File and Folder Management Made Easy
• Organizing Your Stuff in Folders
• Shuffling Files and Folders
• The Incredible iCloud Drive
• Chapter 9: Comprehending the macOS Clipboard
• Introducing the Clipboard
• Copying Files and Folders
• Pasting from the Clipboard
• Catalina’s Universal Clipboard
• Part 3: Getting Things Done
• Chapter 10: Four Terrific Time-saving Tools
• With a Quick Look
• Spotlight on Finding Files and Folders Faster
• Blast Off with Mission Control
• Launchpad: The Place for Applications
• Chapter 11: Organizing Your Life
• Keeping Track with Calendar
• Reminders: Protection Against Forgetting
• Everything You Need to Know about Notification Center
• Use Notes for Making Notes
• Tracking Productivity with Screen Time
• Chapter 12: Are You Siri-ous?
• What Siri Can Do for You
• Working with Siri
• Making Siri Your Own
• Chapter 13: Maps Are Where It’s At
• Finding Your Current Location with Maps
• Finding a Person, Place, or Thing
• Views, Zooms, and Pans
• Maps and Contacts
• Time-saving Map Tools: Favorites, Recents, and Contacts
• Smart Map Tricks
• Chapter 14: Apps Born in iOS
• Taking Stock of the Market with Stocks
• Read All about It in News
• Recording Memos with Voice Memos
• Controlling Lights, Locks, and More with Home
• Part 4: Getting Along with Others
• Chapter 15: (Inter)Networking
• Getting Connected to the Internet
• Browsing the Web with Safari
• Audio and Video Calls with FaceTime
• Chapter 16: Dealing with People
• Collecting Your Contacts
• Chapter 17: Communicating with Mail and Messages
• Sending and Receiving Email with Mail
• Communicating with Messages
• Chapter 18: Sharing Your Mac and Liking It
• Introducing Networks and File Sharing
• Setting Up File Sharing
• Access and Permissions: Who Can Do What
• Connecting to a Shared Disk or Folder on a Remote Mac
• Changing Your Password
• More Types of Sharing
• Part 5: Getting Creative
• Chapter 19: The Musical Mac
• Apple Music and iTunes Match Rock!
• Introducing Music (the App Formerly Known as iTunes)
• Working with Media
• All about Playlists
• Chapter 20: The Multimedia Mac
• Playing Movies and Music in QuickTime Player
• Watching TV
• Using the Books App
• Finding and Listening to Podcasts with the Podcasts App
• You’re the Star with Photo Booth
• Viewing and Converting Images and PDFs in Preview
• Importing Media from a Camera or Camcorder
• Chapter 21: Words and Letters
• Processing Words with TextEdit
• Font Mania
• Chapter 22: Publish or Perish: The Fail-Safe Guide to Printing
• Before Diving In …
• Ready: Connecting and Adding Your Printer
• Set: Setting Up Your Document with Page Setup
• Print: Printing with the Print Sheet
• Preview and PDF Options
• Part 6: Care and Feeding
• Chapter 23: Features for the Way You Work
• Finally, a Dark Mode
• App Shopping, Improved
• Using Your iPhone as Your Mac’s Camera or Scanner
• Talking and Listening to Your Mac
• Automatic Automation
• A Few More Useful Goodies
• Chapter 24: Safety First: Backups and Other Security Issues
• Backing Up Is (Not) Hard to Do
• Why You Need Two Sets of Backups
• Non-Backup Security Concerns
• Protecting Your Data from Prying Eyes
• Chapter 25: Utility Chest
• In the Applications and Utilities Folders
• Capturing Your Screen
• Chapter 26: Troubleshooting macOS
• About Startup Disks and Booting
• Recovering with Recovery HD
• If Your Mac Crashes at Startup
• Optimizing Storage
• Part 7: The Part of Tens
• Chapter 27: Ten Ways to Speed Up Your Mac Experience
• Use Those Keyboard Shortcuts
• Improve Your Typing Skills
• Change Your Resolution
• Purchase a Faster Mac
• Add RAM
• Add a Second Display
• Use Your iPad as a Second Display
• Upgrade to a Solid-State Drive (SSD)
• Get More Storage
• Subscribe to My Free Newsletter
• Chapter 28: Ten Great Websites for Mac Freaks
• The Mac Observer
• Macworld
• TidBITS
• iMore
• AppleWorld.Today
• The Wirecutter
• Apple Support
• Other World Computing
• dealmac/dealnews
• Working Smarter for Mac Users
• Index
• About the Author
• Connect with Dummies
• End User License Agreement