Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition
by David Pogue & Adam Goldstein

This errata page lists errors outstanding in the most recent printing.

If you have technical questions or error reports, you can send them to
booktech@oreilly.com.  Please specify the printing date of your copy.

This page was updated July 9, 2007. 
  
Here's a key to the markup:
	[page-number]: serious technical mistake
	{page-number}: minor technical mistake
	<page-number>: important language/formatting problem
	(page-number): language change or minor formatting problem
	?page-number?: reader question or request for clarification



Confirmed errors:


(34) Under heading Terminology Differences, 2nd line;
that's what you'll find the end of this book
should be
that's what you'll find at the end of this book


[57] Fig. 2-15, top;
Start a new para. before "Bottom"


[70] Fig. 2-23 caption;
4 lines from end: change "(left)" to "(top)"
last line: change "(right)" to "(below)"


[91] Fig. 3-7;
Start a new para. before "Middle"


{100} 4th line;
Change the cloverleaf symbol to the apple symbol.

(The cloverleaf is a keyboard key; the apple is a menu heading on the 
screen.)


(107) Para beginning "Keystrokes", 1st word;
Change "Keystrokes" to "Keyboard Shortcuts", to correspond to the 
wording in the screenshot in 4-8.


[115] 3rd line of text;
Change "first couple letters" to "first couple of letters"

Similarly change:
260, 3rd para., 2nd line
267, 6th para., last line


[175-76] passim;
Renumber items 1-5 as 2-6.

Item 1 already exists on p. 174.


(233) 2nd para., 4th line;
Change "starts" to "stars"


[236] 2nd line;
Change "on Windows" to "in Windows"


(296) first line;
"your" should be "you're"


(353) Fig. 13-3, para. labelled "Top," 3rd line;
Change "on (top) and off" to "off (top) and on"


(400) last line;
Change "triange" to "triangle"


[423] 6th para.;
Add a period after "for your editing pleasure"


[483] Under heading Character Map, last line;
Change 369 to 371


[485] Under heading Display Control Panel, last line;
Delete the comma


(497) 4th para.;
Delete the first sentence--it duplicates the first sentence of the previous 
para.


[504] entry for Bonjour networking;
Change 304 to 308


(512) entry for "smart mailboxes";
delete 270 (there's no reference to the topic on that page)