something in System 7.5.3 and

as STATIONERY! From now on,

promised a secret a day “for a

gorgeous photo of your 

Gaussian Blur filter, set to

by now, but it’s a biggie:

Mac says it’s OK. “OK?” asks

1st resort:  Command-Option-Esc

probably dying. Call an

That’s what’s great about

crawling with help documents,

doesn’t type numbers,

   (call by voice first)

menu. Your icons will be

drawer with one Find command?

activate another window

launching a program, typing

hard drive. Only one (marked

You can make an alias of it

Servers (etc.), open your

to clean out you Preferences

Instead, get your slides or

the trick by waking up a

Time  control panel list a town

explain why, in Word 5’s

in your Chooser is backward-

without carefuly proofreading

System 7.5’s PowerBook

“Secrets” for a long time,

word processor (WordPerfect,

on your hard drive, it’s faster

version will launch when you

program. Choose Creator

programs! Solution: put aliases

              WHAT!?!?

of this most insightful phrase:



CD-ROM drive. Insert the

Press your Interrupt button

highlight the cell, choose

System folder temporarily.

much luck viewing graphics

than it was even two years

Now, you must click the style

use fonts, sizes, and colors

    

outer window level? The

control panel. You probably

pasting. (1) Highlight text;

Claris Emailer (included with

key! It’s the same as the

to re-install next time, you’ll

when you type, but don’t

Plaintalk English Text-to-

weird line breaks, run them

what it is: 20 million

AOL folder, Online Browser fold

Send us a really cool new

Command-M is the same as

[Frequently Asked Questions]

Just press Option as you

copy of Color It that came

the Shift key. Or, for better

source! Just drag any icon

a program whose window is

even touching the mouse!

   (2) Choose About The Finder

or scan in Color It, included

STARTUP MOVIE, and put it into

key as you click

“Middle of Nowhere.” Then 

with File Sharing. Or maybe

document take up to twice as

version number (old verisons) 

quotes” feature. Then use the 

your entire drive. Then erase

Macintosh from the Apple menu.

group it with a larger, 

see its zoom box (upper-right

File dialog box, press

File dialog box, press

File dialog box, press Command-

graphics program. Choose Get 

board, the lines sometimes

command. Then paste over the

Now use your program’s Print

will show you every 

map. Opening it with Option 

world. Also, you can paste in

copied material if you first 

command, and give the new

Choose Commands from the Tools 

fixative from an art supply 

use the View menu to change to 

Apply the Outline style to it

Option while double-clicking an

got mail!”? Then why not

unique option: switching your

group of icons. From the File

spits out the one in the 

paper, and one for thicker

anymore. Install "Secret

(that makes the modem answer on

Go to your telecom program and

you’ve got a conflict of 

up. But you can stop the Mac

you want. You can use any 

Then open the Monitors control

the little extension icons). 

each morning? Just put the 

not on a network! Instead, just

folder (in the System folder).

loading. It also turns virtual

pressing Command as

click the Hard Disk pop-up

all the labels in the Labels

I eat my peas with honey;

careful with it — it can really

from your Apple menu much, make

files (System 7.5 and later),

unless you press Option as

“--------”. Replace its icon

with 31 of the infinity symbol

they’ll open whenever you open

“Application.”  When the items

control panel. Keep clicking

box) if you separate them with

to your folder. Then, whenever 

number in the upper-right 

The Spam Decomposition

the same document by pressing 

Small Icon views according to 

and choose Clean Up All from

if you’ve used the Views 

window, you can Command-click

files to another disk. While

windows at once! Just 

desktop (no windows open),

Command-Y to return them 

the program that created the 

Down Arrow to open a 

windows you may be buried in, 

window is active, and

you can press Command-Right

Arrow to expand, or Command-

is single-sided!

 It also prevents Startup

some icon to open it. (But

You can work around this if you

a multisync model. Use your

windows overlapping, you can

in the Finder, press Command-Y

or folders... or is there?

programs? Then your Desktop 

in a window, press Option

way to shut up those messages.

the Trash, you don’t have to

time, among other things. To

for all your sounds; double-

the PowerBook to leave on your

the Application menu 

thriller novel! (Check out

the word Computer. Apple

down System folder onto a RAM

about three times faster...

press Command-Shift-3, or 

their contents. You can

sounds back and forth

Brightness (unless you have

Edit menu, to the left of

have bought a Performa 6200.

its Open command to open the

choose Copy. Now paste into

Phone, included with

Drag-and-Drop a picture

clock. Instead, just open the

them to open it into the

your file names at Geneva 9.

it should be 1/8th your Mac’s 

program. If anything goes

is called Sosumi? Because Apple

included with “Mac Secrets,”

some programmers work! Jeff

before the “renaming rectangle”

putting the Clipboard file

 of the •Shutdown program

press Command, Option, Shift,

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You can remove a file from that

back to a previous editing

press Command-Shift-S. Type the

clock to 9/20/89. Set the 

Secret About box. But it’s

folder, open Conflict Catcher.

Find File program, seeking

with MACWORLD MAC SECRETS

Disk command. Double-click the 

choose Preferences from the 

MACS FOR DUMMIES! It’s a funny,

Option while you choose About

window (where your macros

with “Macworld Macintosh

icon. Or press Tab to jump to

at once! Wowee! Just

Here’s a little-known

the Macintosh XL, had

upside down in your hand. Turn

 use the Web browser that

Drag-and-Drop all kinds of neat

(System 7.5 or later), try

press a single key to “click” 

program. Copy it. Select an 

some big file from America

“host fails to respond”? Keep

bug.) Turn it off to eject the

but it involves erasing the 

 

dragging text in a

appeared in 1984, had a list

disks. The solution: put

• Backlighting

hard drive; no longer. Get

Printer Utility program

add the Smart Quotes command

but it makes your file bigger.

different in each style 

disk? Then it’s time to 

You can use a printer or a 

for all labels, or all fields, 

phone, get a Radio Shack 

To do so, press Option as

Turn the menu-flashing

into. With button down, press

program name from the 

a range (“pages 3–5”). And use

the keys across the top of

snapshot of the screen?

use a proper printer’s slash

Nisus word processor, you can

squiggle, etc.). First draw a

FileMaker: use the Find 

of any window. You’ll get 

to break off? Just take it

can type GOD to jump into

In the Header box, type

launch it? Open your Online

a secret, built-in editor!

non-PowerPC extensions. Use

“text only” dialog box? Open

words from being broken over

type the letters normally first

Delicious, and Macintosh. Jef

to any command, choose it

double-click it (version 5)

date field, press the + or -

down the Command key as 

you’ve got your options set,

if you’ve put their

dot-matrix printout, photocopy 

key when you’re looking 

as in “Go get ’em!” You have

graphics, font samples, and so

you use a commercial program’s

happen by itself, you know.

does (in the Page Setup box)?

of those darned “Please

of humor. Turn on

The Mac II and IIx have two 

 

Project 1

or later. By Option-clicking

Just separate their names,

gray one as a regular

later, you can turn the Mac

main dialog box. An extra

the window normally expands

commands say Fill

Just open the 

for QuicKeys: make

on the SCSI chain are 



 unreadable. But change the

set to “thousands of grays.”

store your settings (icon

at startup: first, in the

it opens in SimpleText. 

Since both Macs have

on the same circuit as, say,

Pad, SimpleText, Scrapbook,

highlight those words, and drag

suitcases in the Fonts

You can turn it off! Choose

stored in the System folder’s

let us include ResEdit with

onto your Launcher window to

desk accessory. You can paste

That's supposed to make you

• Turn off your extensions;

off the Labels checkbox. Your

To find out the nearest

you choose Empty Trash, you

you a new Macintosh tip or