by Alicia Katz Pollock | Jan 19, 2015 | Tips & Tricks
Alicia’s latest Lynda.com blog post focuses on creating an efficient workspace by using your Mac Dock, instead of your Desktop, for one-click access to your files. Here’s an excerpt: Is your Mac desktop covered with icons? You may think this gives you easy...
by Alicia Katz Pollock | Jun 12, 2014 | Tips & Tricks
When you save a file for the first time, Word wants to put it in your Documents folder. That’s a good start, but when you’re working on a project that will have several files in the same folder, you can save time by telling Word to go straight to your project folder...
by Alicia Katz Pollock | Jan 10, 2013 | Tips & Tricks
Is your Mac giving you a spinning beach ball? I just found a bug today affecting my computer and that of a friend. My computer was going extra slow, with a spinning beach ball no matter what I tried to do. Many of you know I’m a huge proponent of not keeping any...
by Alicia Katz Pollock | Aug 18, 2012 | Tips & Tricks
When 10.7 Lion came out, Apple introduced a new procedure for saving your documents, to prevent people from accidentally saving over their documents. Unfortunately, it was pretty confusing. With 10.8, Apple has refined the process. On the File menu, you’ll still see...
by Alicia Katz Pollock | Apr 4, 2012 | Tips & Tricks
With OS X 10.7 Lion, Apple is changing the way we’re all used to saving documents. Why? Have you ever forgotten to Save a document and lost it? Or forgotten to do a Save As and overwritten your content? Or deleted something, saved over it, and lost it forever? The...