Apple Power Macintosh 5260 Series - Manual (Page 19)

Menus
The strip across the top of the screen is called the menu bar. The symbols and
words in it represent menus of commands. To open a menu, place the pointer
on the symbol or word for the menu and press the mouse button.
Icons
Icons are small pictures that represent disks, programs, documents, and
folders. You can double-click any icon to open it and see what it contains.
This icon represents your computer’s internal hard disk.
Icons like this one represent application programs, which you use to create
documents and do other work.
Icons like this one represent documents, which you can create and edit.
Icons like this one represent folders. A folder contains other icons.
To throw away an item you no longer want, drag it to the Trash icon and choose
Empty Trash from the Special menu.
17 Getting Started
Application menu
You can have several
application programs open
at once. To see which
program is active or to
switch from one program
to another, use this menu
(called the Application
menu).
Guide menu
To find an answer to a question,
look in the Guide ( h ) menu.