Opening An Application
Topic 1: How to open the SimpleText program
In order to use SimpleText you must open it first. Here's how.....
(in these tutorials, we will use the " Do This " arrows to indicate that you should
be doing this on your Mac in another window while reading this tutorial).
Click on the desktop (any area
that is not in a window). This brings up the original Macintosh
menus instead of Netscape's menus, which were showing.
Choose Find from the File menu at the top of the screen.
Find is a command which is listed under the File menu.
To choose a command from the File menu:
- Position your pointer over the word File in the Menu bar.
- Press and hold mouse to "pulldown" the menu.
- While still holding down the mouse button drag down until the Find command is highlighted.
- Finally release mouse button.
Throughout these tutorials, we include pictures of what your Macintosh screen will look
like at various steps. Here is what it will look like when you pull down the File menu from the original desktop menus:
Observe that the Find command is highlighted
There are two versions of the Find command on Macintoshes at URI.
We will show you both versions.
Find Version 1 (on older Macintoshes):
The following dialog box should appear:
Within the dialog box, type in the name of the application you are trying to find (SimpleText) Note this is one word,
no spaces. Then click on Find.
Something like the following should appear:
Double click on the SimpleText icon to run SimpleText. If this version of
Find worked, then skip down a few lines to Runnning SimpleText. If Find looked different, you probably have the other version of Find
and should continue next.
Find Version 2 (on newer Macintoshes):
When you choose Find from the File menu on the newer Macintoshes,
the following dialog box appears:
In the right most of the three boxes, type the string for which you wish
to search. In this case, we typed "SimpleText" as shown above.
The Find command will now bring up a window with all files it found
on the disk that have that name. This is shown below:
Select the icon labelled "SimpleText" from either the top or bottom half
of the resulting Find dialog box and
double click it to run SimpleText. There may be several of these
icons in the dialog box due to the Mac having several versions of
SimpleText installed. Select the one whose icon is a hand
writing on a piece of paper. There may even be several of these,
select any of them to double click.
If you do not see the following icon:
,
press the apple key (located on your keyboard) and the letter g at the same time.
This will do a new search for the application SimpleText.
Running SimpleText
When you double click to open SimpleText, the following should appear:
In this case, you have successfully opened SimpleText .
The blank window labeled untitled 1 represents a blank sheet of paper on which you can type. You can now create a document.
Or, if the big window does not come up, something like this will appear:
These are the SimpleText menus, only with no window showing.
(Observe SimpleText icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen, this
means that SimpleText is already running.). In order to create a document you must create a new window (only do this if a SimpleText window did not come up at first); to do this:
Choose New from the File Menu.
The following should appear:
You have successfully opened SimpleText . The blank window labeled untitled 1 represents a blank sheet of paper on which you can type. You can now create a document.
Click on one of the following, to continue the tutorial: