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While it seems like the Menu Bar is built to be controlled with your mouse or trackpad, you can actually get to everything in the Menu Bar using only your keyboard. In fact, there are several ways to do control the Menu Bar with your keyboard.

Don't let yourself get frustrated by changes to your devices or apps. Learn to embrace change and look at it as an opportunity to learn new things and explore.

Reader View is a great way to read large amounts of text on a web page. Get rid of distractions like ads, navigation and sidebars, and read with larger text on a plain background. You can also use Reader View for nicer printouts, PDFs and text features.

You can add page numbers to the top or bottom of all of your pages in a Pages document. Learn how to add and modify them, skip pages, style the text and more.

You can extract pages and parts of pages from a PDF using a variety of different techniques on your Mac in Preview. One is so easy it almost isn't worth mentioning the others.

Learn some basic Numbers spreadsheet skills by building a document that tracks a stock portfolio. Learn to use functions, perform math operations, get column sums, format cells in various ways, use conditional highlighting, use multiple tables, build charts and more.

Before sending photos, consider the size of the attachments and what the recipient really needs. If it makes sense, use one of these techniques to shrink the photo file size down to something more appropriate.

The latest version of the free clipboard manager from MacMost includes a search function, the ability to snooze clip capture, and lots of new powerful Smart Clips functions.

When switching from Windows to Mac you'll see lots of specific tips for using and altering your Mac to make it more like Windows. But if you really want to switch, learn to do things the Mac way.

If you need to take and markup screenshots often, you don't need a third-party app. The built-in screenshot utility on your Mac will allow you to do this quickly and easily once you learn some tricks.

Before you sell, give away, or recycle your Mac, you should erase it first. You should also erase any used Mac you buy before you do anything else with it.

If a photo is part of your Photo's App library, how do you get it out and use it as a regular file? There are three proper ways you can export a photo, none of which involve messing around inside the library file.

When looking for files, folders, apps, web pages, templates or many other things, macOS provides you with quick-access lists of recent items to make it easier to find what you want.

If you use the Notes app to take notes while doing research or attending meetings, you should know about the Keep On Top feature that allows you to keep a Notes window floating above other windows at all times.

Ever want an extra set of buttons to control your Mac? Add single-press buttons to launch apps or do whatever you want. You don't need to get an expensive peripheral. A cheap extra keyboard or keypad will work if you also use a third-party keyboard tool to configure it.

If you need to rotate, trim, extract a frame or text from a video or audio file on a Mac, you don't need to even open an app. You can do all of these things and more just using the Finder and macOS.

If you need to rotate, trim, convert or just view some images on a Mac, you don't need to use any app at all. You can do these and more using just the tools in the Finder and macOS.

If you have a lot of notes in the Notes app you may want to try one or more of these techniques to organize them. You can use sorting, folders, tags, smart folders, links and other techniques.

Learn some Numbers spreadsheet skills by building a simple retirement planning table and chart. Learn how to use basic formulas to calculate how savings will grow with contributions and interest each year.

What do you do if someone sends you a Microsoft Word document, but you don't use Word on your Mac? You've got several options for viewing these documents, copying text from them, and even editing and saving in Word format without needing to buy anything.