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In this movie I'm going to talk about the differences between the Mac and the PC. And the reality is that there are really very, very few differences. In fact, I'll cover just about everything in this short movie. As you can see, I'm working on a PC at the moment. Now, one of the things, if you are familiar with the PC, is up here at the top it looks a little different. If I switch over to Excel here, which I have open, you can see we have this blue bar that goes across. Virtually all programs in the PC have that. One of the nice things I like about this blue bar is if you double click on it, it goes to full screen to partial screen or window. We like that. So, but it's gone in the PC now and it's got this common InDesign look. However, if you go over to a blank area and double click on it, it will come down to your window and just for a second you can see the little blue bar at the top, which obviously the Adobe programming team has overridden. Up at the top left-hand corner we see the InDesign logo. We can access Bridge from here and this is all new over here. Now, on the PC this is permanent but on the Mac you have to turn it on. So if I go over to this other document that I have open here, I've got screens from the Mac so that you can see what it's like. First of all, let me just cover what's over here. You have the Zoom Level. Now, Zoom Level used to be located down here beside the page number. It has now moved and it's up here. Over here we can view Options. We can see Rulers, Guides, et cetera. We can turn them on and off from there. I'll turn the Guides off. Here we can go to Preview Mode or Normal Mode. This is also located down here where it used to be. And over here we have some options for viewing windows. We'll be looking at that a little bit later in this chapter. Over here we have our Workspaces. I've got the Getting Started one here and again, that's something we'll get into and we have the Search or the Help. You can search here and it will take you out into the Internet. You do need an Internet connection for this so if you're having trouble with something and you want to search for help, you go here. Now, by default on the PC, this is always on. Not only is it a default, you can't turn it off. But on the Mac you have to turn this on. So if I come down here a little bit and we look at this window of the Mac screen grab with the Window Menu open, here in the PC, you'll never see it, but down here on the Mac you've got a choice to turn on two things; the Application Frame and the Application Bar. This is the Application Bar up here at the top. So it's turned on here as you can see in the screen grab. It's available. Now, the Application Frame is something that's a little bit different in the Mac. Normally if this were a Mac and you looked over here, you could see your Desktop, unlike the PC, which entirely frames the window. You can put the window entirely like this or down here. If I go to the InDesign, even if I double click here, bring it down, I don't see the Desktop behind it. What turning on this Application Frame does is create this frame so that the program's contained it. Now, you may or may not like it. It's fine. But one of the greatest advantages of it is if you double click on this, and this works in Photoshop as well, I'm not sure about Illustrator, you go to Open a File. Like that. Just double click to open a file. So that's a nice little feature if you have the Application Frame turned On and then once it's turned On you can turn on the Application Bar. The only other differences you're really going to see between the Mac and the PC is that your Preferences, your Preferences are located in the InDesign Menu here. On the PC they're located under the Edit Menu. So when I'm accessing Preferences, I'll probably just say access your preferences. In the PC I'll go to the Edit Menu. You're going to have to go over to the InDesign Menu here. The other differences are the shortcut keys. Here characters is Control T. It's Command T on the Mac. Paragraph is Alt Control. That would be Option Command and Shift is the same as Shift Command T. And I do my best to give you the different options that you have available to you. I try to say them both. If I'm saving a file I'll say Control or Command S so that you know what I'm referring to. And that's really it. The programs are the same, the interface is just slightly different and I don't think you'll have any problems adjusting from one to the other.