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3 Steps for Adding Applications to the Mac Dock

Adding Applications to the dock is easy when you know how.

1. Go into the Applications folder
2. Select your Application
3. Drag it and drop it onto the dock. Voila!
4. To remove, just drag it off the dock and drop it.

How to “Right Click” on the Mac

PC users love their “Right Click”.  On the Mac there is (as you know) no “Right Click” or is there?  Of course there is. There are two ways to do this depending on the Mac you are using.

1. Hold Control and click (this works on all Macs)
2. Set up the “Place two fingers on trackpad and click button for secondary click” option on laptops that have multi-touch by going to System Preferences >>Keyboard & Mouse >>Trackpad.
3. Voila!

7 Useful Mac Keyboard Commands

1. Switch between open applications by holding APPLE and pressing the TAB button. Each press cycles to another open App if you do not release the APPLE.
2. Close Applications quickly by holding the APPLE down and simultaneously cycling to the App by pressing the TAB.  Once there, hit the Q button to close the highlighted App.
3. To save – APPLE and S
4. To quit the current App – APPLE and Q
5. To close the current window – APPLE and W
6. To hide the current application window APPLE and H
7. To show all the hidden applications, use SHOW ALL in the Application menu