Mac at Work
David Sparks
Language: English
Pages: 368
ISBN: 0470877006
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Bridge the gap between using a Mac at home and at the office
Now that you love your Mac at home, you want to use one at the office without missing a beat of productivity or professionalism. This unique guide shows you how. You’ll find best Mac business practices for handling word processing, spreadsheet and presentation creation, task and project management, and graphics. The book also explores topics such as hardware maintenance, how to synchronize with multiple computers, data backup, and communication with Windows networks.
- Covers the nuts and bolts of using a Mac at work, including synchronizing with multiple computers, backing up data, and communicating with Windows networks
- Goes beyond simple coverage of Microsoft Office or iWork to show you how to professionally create and interact with typical office systems and documents
- Provides best software and best practices for creating and using spreadsheets, word processing documents, and slide presentations on a Mac
- Gives you helpful guidelines and suggestions that can be lacking in an office where the IT department is focused primarily on PCs
Find out the best ways to use your Mac in the office and get more productive than ever!
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Hazel can be set to run the rules automatically or on your command. The application runs in the background and uses few processing cycles. I’ve run Hazel automatically for years and never noticed it bogging down my Mac. Nearly any file management you repeatedly do can be automated with Hazel. I have rules that empty my Trash every few days, sort my Downloads folder, and sort all my scanned files to subfolders. These examples only scratch the surface; Hazel can also set color labels and add
the e-mail into OmniFocus (covered in Chapter 9). You could also put it in some other task application or you could create a folder in your mail client called Action where you keep e-mails requiring further contemplation and response. This workflow is summarized in Figure 5-9. 08_877005-ch05.indd 74 11/9/10 11:03 AM Folder management If you were reading carefully my suggested e-mail strategies, you noticed that I referenced only three mail locations: the inbox, the Action folder, and the
can add and modify contacts. Daylite color-codes contacts by their relationship to the business, such as customers, employees, and vendors. With color coding, it is easy to figure out who does what when looking through the contact list. Because the entire system is integrated, when you click on a contact, you can also see related appointments, tasks, e-mail, and notes to that contact. 09_877005-ch06.indd 90 11/9/10 11:04 AM SHIPPING WITH YOUR MAC What if your business requires shipping
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 Other Graphics Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 Chapter 14: Presentations 189 Keynote versus PowerPoint. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 Apple iWork Keynote . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 Creating a presentation . . . . .
Enhancing Mac OS X applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 Chapter 17: Project Management 235 Desktop Project Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235 OmniPlan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235 SIDEBAR: How Henry Gantt became famous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236 FastTrack
