User Manual

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Spotlight
Find anything on your MacBook Pro—and beyond. Spotlight searches your Mac, as well as
Wikipedia, Maps, news, movie showtimes, and more.
Search for anything. Click at the top-right of the screen or press Command–Space bar, then
start typing.
Menu bar
The menu bar runs along the top of the screen. Use the icons and menus there to connect to
a Wi-Fi network, check your Wi-Fi status , change the volume , check your battery charge
, and more.
Help
You can nd answers to many of your questions in the Help menu.
Get help. Click the Help menu in the menu bar, then type a question or term in the search eld.
Choose a topic from the results list, or choose Show All Help Topics to see all results.
To get help using an app, just click the Help menu while you’re using the app.
Quickly open apps
Your MacBook Pro comes with apps for all the things you love—browsing the web, checking
email, creating documents and presentations, sharing photos, enjoying movies, and more. You
can quickly open apps from Spotlight, from the Dock, or with Launchpad.
Launchpad
Folders
Mac App Store
Open an app. Click the app’s icon in the Dock, or click the Launchpad icon in the Dock and click
the app you want. You can also search for the app using Spotlight, then open the app directly
from your Spotlight search results.
Organize apps in Launchpad. Drag an app onto another app to create a folder. Drag more apps
to the new folder to add them. To remove an app from a folder, just drag it out.
Get more apps. Click the Mac App Store icon in the Dock. When you download apps from
the Mac App Store, they appear in Launchpad. To quickly get updates to apps and OS X, click
Updates in the Mac App Store.
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