Ah I am going to attempt a reply here so that I am participating as well as asking questions. The Dock is a designated area running along the bottom of the screen and your commonly used apps are housed there. Some people have a lot of apps on the dock whereas others do not. The advantage of the dock is that it saves going in to the Applications folder which you would have to do once on the Desktop. Visually sighted people get a quick glance at all their apps and for us we get there very quickly. If you have Mail on the dock, then once in the dock you can hit the letter M. However if you have more than one app starting with the letter M such as messages it is quicker to press the initial two letters of the word as hitting M twice does not jump you to all the different apps starting with the letter M. Now the desktop has some icons on it but mainly shows up volumes which are referred to on Windows machine as drives. You could have a lot of items ion the desktop but it i s not designed for that purpose. Finder is the app that controls the desktop.
Apologies to experienced users if this is simple and basic and hopefully not inaccurate. I just want to get some experience also of answering questions for others. On 5 Jul 2014, at 18:27, Juanita Martin <jordmar...@suddenlink.net> wrote: > I think these are great questions too. I'd like to add one also: > What's the difference between the desktop and dock? > I know what the dock is on iDevices, but what is its function on the Mac? > > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Jul 5, 2014, at 10:28 AM, Mark <arosind...@me.com> wrote: >> >> Just wanted to say, good questions. I am in the same position as yourself, >> in trying to transition from a Windows environment to Mac. I agree with you, >> that it is not intuitive. Looking forward to someone responding, in basic >> terms, to your questions. >> Mark >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Jul 5, 2014, at 8:22 AM, Eleanor Martha Burke >> <eleanormarthabu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi All, I have been coming to terms with a Mac for over 6 weeks now on a >> daily basis and a little before that from time to time. However there are >> some concepts I really cannot come to work out which by now should be fairly >> obvious to me. Hope someone can clarify these for me. >> >> At this point I would like to say I have good experience of Windows and it >> is because of this I am finding some of these Mac concepts difficult rather >> than them being intuitive. >> >> Here goes then, >> >> 1. I think as a rule of thumb quic nav is mainly used for navagating the web >> but not otherwise. Is this correct? >> 2. While I know that single key navagation can be used with the tab key, I >> cannot work out when I need to tab and when I need to vo right arrow. >> 3. 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