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I'm new to the whole realm of iMac and am trying to make use of the mouse. I'm used to the right mouse click in the PC world over an image to copy and paste it onto a clipboard....

But my iMac mouse does not have a "right mouse click" feature! (Or at least...I can't find it!)

Can anyone help?!?

God bless!

Gordo

To copy and paste an image or text, highlight it by clicking on it once, then go up to the button bar on top to where it says edit then go down to copy. To paste click once on the area where you want to paste, again go up to where it says edit, and then go down to where it says paste.

Gordo,

Greggy seems to have beat me to it. I got my new iMac for the office a month ago, and it took a little getting used to it. Now I am working faster and more productiviely with it than with the PC on publication work and that is with both MS Office and Adobe InDesign CS2. Now all I have to do is remember the differences when I come home at night because my home office has a relatively new PC with compatible programs.

Enjoy it once you get used to it.

In IC XC,
Father Anthony+

Oh so true - but you could go and buy a cheap wee USB 2 button , scroll wheel rodent and use it the way you are accustomed to do on your PC . You should just be able to plug it in and it will then work

PROVIDING you are using Jaguar or Panther and above

OR you can highlight it then press the Apple key and C and then put your cursor where you want to insert it and press Apple key and V and as by magic it should appear in it's new place

I always press and hold momentarily, the options should show up next to the cursor!

+T+
Michael

Ah right the keyboard commands, just to add a few that make life simpler:
Apple key + s =save
Apple key + p = print
Apple key + q (or esc) = to force quite an application

When working in appleworks or other word processors:
Apple key + u = underline text
Apple key + b = bold text
Apple key + i = italicized text
Apple key + t = normal text

And as always go to your system preferences and play around with the different settings to change interface, and make things easier for you to use.

Thank you all for your great advice! I'm still finding my way around the Apple world...a bit like Neo in the Matrix who suddenly realizes that the PC/Windows world in which he has lived for some long is intolerably unreal. Now he must learn to embrace the new reality he faces and learn at the feet of masters!

I have been told that purchasing a Mac is as much a philosophical as a practical exercise. We shall see...

Gordo, the young Mac Grasshopper who must learn that "there is no spoon"

Or (I don't think anyone has said this yet) you can highlight the text and then click while holding the control (ctrl) key. This will bring up a menu like what you'd get if you had right-clicked on something. If it's an image you don't have to highlight it, just click while holding that key and the menu will pop up.
I think I tend to use this way with images and the apple-C way with text.