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Simple Mac questions [all done]

Rotting MeatRotting Meat Registered User regular
edited February 2008 in Help / Advice Forum
As someone who has only really used PCs previously, having a few Macs in the lab is an interesting novelty, but just a couple things I need a hand with. Perhaps you guys could help me out?

1) On one of our macs in the top right corner beside the spotlight is a 'User select' that names the current user and if you click on it, you can switch to an alternate user without logging out. Our other mac does not have this; how/where do I go to enable this on the second mac?

2) On PCs I make extensive use of the home/end keys to travel to the beginning or end of lines of text, page up/page down to slide up a page or down a page, etc. In mac programs (namely preview and safari) these keys act completely differently. Any advice on modifying them or alternative programs that I'd be comfortable with? These macs are an academic setting (university lab) so freeware for academic uses would be great if required.

Thanks in advance! After this I'll just need to find a way to get expose and sticky corners on my winXP.

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  • ben0207ben0207 Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    the users thing is on System Preferences, under Users I think (not at my Mac presently) you can of course do a spotlight search from the system prefs pane.

    The other thing I've never noticed, sorry.

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  • ben0207ben0207 Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Yeah, it's called Accounts, and you have to click Login Options in the bottom left of the pane.

    And checking, Pg Up and Pg Down etc seem to behave exactly as they should (to me). What are you expecting them to do?

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  • CailYoungCailYoung Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Rotting Meat wrote: »
    2) On PCs I make extensive use of the home/end keys to travel to the beginning or end of lines of text,

    Cmd-left arrow and cmd-right arrow will get you to the start/end of a line of text. Cmd-up/down to the start/end of a body of text. Option-left/right one word at a time, option-up/down seems to be paragraphs...

    Cmd (command) is the 'Apple' key.

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  • Rotting MeatRotting Meat Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Cmd-left and cmd-right were what I was looking for, as my home and end keys basically just function as page-up and page-down. And the accounts/login options is exactly it as well.

    Thanks for the help!

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