[X4U] Advice sought on a Mac book for an elderly beginner-level user.

[Thomas W Noel]

On May 1, 2008, at 4:53 AM, Jamie Kahn Genet wrote:

> Hi there, I'm after a Mac for beginners book for an elderly family
> member who has never learnt the basics - e.g. creating folders and
> organising files, navigating the Finder and save/open dialogs.
>
> They can browse the web (they bookmark, but every single bookmark is
> stored in the same long list), email (but everything is stored in  
> their
> inbox), and word process, but nothing beyond the bare minimum they've
> ever needed to know.
>
> Can anyone recommend a good book with examples that they can work
> through to teach them these missing basics? I bought them 'OSX Tiger  
> The
> Missing Manual' when they first got their Mac mini, but it seems a tad
> too dense for them.
>
> TIA,
> Jamie Kahn Genet

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