Start an Office Program

You can start an Office 2008 program in several ways:

  1. Click the program icon in the Dock. If the program isn’t yet running, clicking the icon makes it bounce, indicating that the program is starting. If the program is already running, clicking the icon switches to that program.

  2. In the Finder, open the Applications folder and then the Microsoft Office 2008 folder. (The Office programs and their supporting utilities are installed in this folder.) In the folder, double-click the program you want to run, or right-click it and then click Open.

  3. Double-click an Office file in the Finder, or right-click it and then click Open, to start the relevant program and open the file at the same time.

See Also

You’ll walk through the process of starting a program in "Practice Working with Windows and Commands" later in this chapter. You can see images of the Dock and the Finder procedures in that topic.

Note

The terms application and program refer to the same thing. In this book we consistently use the term program, to simplify things. You might see the term application used in the Mac or Office interface. When referring to labeled interface elements, we’ll use the term that appears in the interface. We also use the term Office file to refer collectively to Word documents, Excel workbooks, and PowerPoint presentations. We’ll talk more about this in Chapter 2.

Mouse Manners

Computer mice come in all shapes, sizes, and colors. These days, most have a significant amount of functionality built in, but the basics remain the same. Here’s a quick rundown of mouse actions and the way we refer to them in this book:

  • Point. Move the mouse so that the on-screen mouse pointer rests over the specified object.

  • Click. Point to the specified on-screen element (usually a button, link, or command), and then press and release the primary mouse button once.

  • Right-click. Point to the specified on-screen element, and then press and release the secondary mouse button once.

  • Drag. Point to the specified on-screen element, press and hold down the primary mouse button, move the pointer (usually to select content or move something), and then release the button.

  • Right-click and drag. Point to the specified on-screen element, press and hold down the secondary mouse button, move the pointer, and then release the button.

The left mouse button is traditionally the primary mouse button, and clicking instructions are given that way in this book and in other computer documentation. If you’re left-handed or just want to change things up, you can switch the primary and secondary buttons, so that clicking the right mouse button carries out click operations, and clicking the left mouse button carries out right-click operations. (If you do that, you’ll just need to do the opposite of whatever the instructions say.)

To change the way the Mac operating system interprets mouse clicks:

  1. Click the System Preferences icon in the Dock to open the System Preferences window.

  2. In the Hardware section, click Keyboard & Mouse.

    From the Keyboard & Mouse page that opens, you can change the tracking, scrolling, and double-clicking speeds, set the primary mouse button, and specify whether and how you want to use a keyboard/mouse combination to zoom in on window content.

    Any changes you make on the Keyboard & Mouse page take effect immediately.

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