A guide to using AppleScript to customize and automate the Macintosh. The book describes how AppleScript scripting language works with the Finder, the application that controls the Macintosh desktop. Readers are taught how to use AppleScript to automate commonly performed activities such as opening and closing folders and manipulating files. Features of the book include: tutorials which describe how to begin recording and writing Finder scripts; and references to the terms defined by the Finder that Macintosh users can use in scripts.