Hector <hmaclean@gotadsl.co.uk> writes: >I am new to Macs and Logic 7, having come from a >PC background. I knew LAPC 5.5.1 pretty well as I >used it for several years.... snip >The biggest problem is getting used to the different >modifier keys. CTRL, Option/ALT, Command/Apple and >Shift. It seems very confusing and I really miss the right >mouse button and scroll wheel of PC's. All Mac since about 2 years ago ship with the "Mighty Mouse". It has a scroll BALL (which not only allows vertical scrolling like a scroll wheel, but horizontal scrolling). It's also not very obvious that this mouse has a few "buttons", but they aren't physically delineated on top. Rather, they are pressure points underneath the mouse (so the act of tilting the mouse in certain directions will press the button underneath). You need to assign these buttons first: Apple Menu > System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Mouse I ignore all the buttons except for right and left, and assign these to the conventional left/right that a PC mouse would have. In the world of Mac, the right button concept is relatively new, so not all applications take full advantage of it yet. In the days of only one button, control-click on Mac was the equivalent of right-click on PC. Modifier Keys: A Mac has 4 (a PC has 3). Macs have one more modifier key than PCs: The Control Key. This sort of made up for the fact that Mac didn't have a 2nd mouse button . Control-click on Mac is often similar to right-click on PC. The Mac's Command Key is equivalent of a PC's Control Key (confusing... yes! especially since a Mac already has this thing called a "control key". And, at only 23 years after the fact, Apple is finally printing the word "Command" on the Command key on their new keyboards released August 2007. It used to only have a stupid clover leaf and Apple logo). Shift is shift. That's rather obvious. A Mac's Option key is equivalent to a PC's Alt key. Apple even prints the word "alt" on the Option key to remind us of that. Using OSX, any old USB mouse (with multiple buttons and scroll wheel) will work on a Mac. I encourage every one-button mouse user to buy even an el-cheapo mouse with scroll wheel. Once I started using the scroll wheel 3 years ago, it's a huge pain to visit somebody else's computer without this simple device and use scroll-bars in the windows to scroll around. By the way, if you hold down SHIFT while using as scroll-wheel, it does horizontal scrolling. f-erenc szabo, smarty pants Z+E+R+O+B+E+A+T "NOW POWERED BY THE MIRACLE OF THE TRANSISTOR!" <http://home.goodmedia.com/~zerobeat>