Switched from Windows to Mac?

What’s it called on my Mac?

Find your stuff in the Finder Finder  is like File Explorer. Here, you can find all of your files, organized in folders. In the menu bar, choose Go > Home to quickly see your Documents, Movies, Music, and Pictures. You can also find your apps and easily drag items into the sidebar to rearrange them. See Use the Finder.	Customize your Mac Similar to Control Panel on a Windows PC, System Settings  is where you set up features like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth; personalize settings like font size, color schemes, and wallpaper; choose what appears in your menu bar or Control Center; and take advantage of accessibility settings. See Customize your Mac with System Settings.
Take a screenshot Loved the Snipping Tool on Windows PC? Check out the Screenshot utility on Mac. Press Command + Shift + 5, then choose an option like taking a screen capture of just one window, or recording your entire screen. Files are saved directly to your desktop. See Take screenshots or screen recordings.	Keep your favorite apps in the Dock On a Windows PC, you pressed Start to see your most used or recent apps. On a Mac, keep your favorite apps in the Dock at the bottom of the screen. Drag and drop in the apps you use most—and drag out the apps you don’t. See Use the Dock.

Use app windows on a Mac

You can have multiple windows of an app open—like different sessions of the app. Use the red, yellow, and green buttons at the top left corner of an app window to close (but not quit) an app window, minimize an app to the Dock, or maximize an app window to make it go full screen.

To learn more, see View and manage windows.

Right-click on Mac

On your Mac, right-click is called secondary click or Control-click. Click with two fingers on your trackpad, or press Control on your keyboard, then click an item.

If you don’t like the two-finger click, you can also customize how to perform a secondary click in Trackpad Settings. Go to System Settings, click Trackpad in the sidebar (you may need to scroll down), then choose an option from the “Secondary click” pop-up menu.

Keys and shortcuts on Mac

Many of the keyboard shortcuts you knew and loved on a Windows PC work on Mac—you just need to swap in a different key or two.

Command Exchange the Control key on Windows for the Command key for most keyboard shortcuts on Mac. Give it a try—use Command-C to copy and Command-V to Paste.	Option You can often replace the Alt key on Windows with the Option key on Mac. Use the Option key to create special characters—for example, to type é, press Option-E, then press the E key again.
Delete On a Mac you can use the Delete key for backspace and Fn-Delete for a forward delete.	Return The Return key on Mac functions just like the Enter key on your Windows PC.

Now that you know the keys, try out a few keyboard shortcuts. Press Command-Space bar to open Spotlight and search your Mac and the web, or to perform Quick Actions like a math problem or currency conversion. Try out Command-Shift -3 to quickly take a screenshot of your whole screen, which saves to your desktop. Or if you’re ever in a bind and looking for the Mac equivalent of Control-Alt-Delete, use Option -Command-Esc to force quit an app.

For more about your keyboard, see Magic Keyboard for MacBook Pro. For more shortcuts, see Intro to keyboard shortcuts.

Keep using the apps you know and love

While your Mac comes with a whole suite of built in apps to keep you connected (like Messages, FaceTime, and Phone), help you to be productive (like Pages, Keynote, and Numbers), and stay entertained (like Apple Music and Apple TV), you can still use many of the apps you already had on your Windows PC (like Microsoft Office). Check out the App Store to download your old favorites—or even to find something new.

Migrate your content from your Windows PC

When you set up your MacBook Pro, you have an opportunity to migrate content, like your user settings, documents, photos, music, accounts, passwords, and more from a Windows PC. If you’ve already set up your Mac, you can still migrate content, and you can specify what you want to transfer.

For more information on how to migrate your content, see Transfer from PC to Mac with Migration Assistant.

Want to learn more?

• Check out Are you new to Mac? for a quick guide on how to get up and running with macOS. Then head over to Personalize the look of your Mac to learn how to add wallpaper, adjust icon and widget styles, increase text size, and more.

• After you get up to speed, find some Top tips, tricks, and keyboard shortcuts—like using Spotlight to search your Mac or how you can use your MacBook Pro with other Apple devices..

• Coming from a Windows PC, but you already have an iPhone? Find out how you can use your iPhone with your new Mac. See Use Continuity to work across Apple devices.