Easy Mac OS X Lion - Kate Binder [6]
To see all the open windows on your Mac, press the Mission Control button on your keyboard, or press Fn-F9 if your Mac doesn’t have a Mission Control button.
Click a window to select it and return all the windows to their normal size.
To close Mission Control without choosing a new window, press the Mission Control button or Fn-F9 again.
To show all windows in a single application, click and hold the application’s icon in the Dock; then choose Show All Windows or Show Recents from the shortcut menu.
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Tip: Change It Up
To change the shortcuts for Mission Control and Exposé, choose Apple menu, System Preferences, and then click Mission Control.
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Tip: You Have Options
If you have a multi-touch-capable trackpad, swipe up on your trackpad with three or four fingers to open Mission Control. Swipe down again with three or four fingers to close Mission Control.
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Click a thumbnail to move to that window; larger thumbnails represent the most recent files that you worked on.
To hide open windows from all programs so that you can see the desktop, press Cmd-Mission Control or Fn-F11.
To make a window active and hide the current application, press Option and click either the window or the Dock icon for its application.
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Tip: Just Around the Corner
The fastest way to invoke Mission Control is to simply move your mouse to a particular corner of the screen—using a hot corner. You can specify functions for hot corners in Mission Control’s System Preferences.
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Tip: Yours to Command
You can switch applications quickly by pressing Cmd+Tab and, within many programs, you can switch document windows by pressing Cmd+` repeatedly until you get to the window you want.
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Using Custom Spaces
Time to quit work and take a Solitaire break! But wait—if you close all your Finder and document windows, you’ll have to open them all back up again when you return to work. There’s a better way—change Spaces. You can set up custom configurations of programs and documents that appear when you switch to the appropriate Space, and slide neatly off the side of the screen when you switch to another Space. Switch back to the first Space, and there are all your windows, just waiting for you.
Press the Mission Control button on your keyboard, or press Fn-F9 if your Mac doesn’t have a Mission Control button, to open Mission Control.
Move your cursor to the upper-right corner of the screen and click the + button that appears there to create a new Space.
Open programs and documents, and arrange windows to set up your custom workspace.
To move back and forth among Spaces, open Mission Control again and click the Space you want to use.
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Note: Space for a Dashboard
When you first open Mission Control, you’ll notice that you already have two Spaces. The one on the right is your regular desktop, and the one on the left is Dashboard. Turn to “Using the Dashboard,” in Part 5, to learn more.
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Tip: A Spacey Shortcut
Flip back and forth among your different Spaces by holding down Control and pressing the arrow keys. Or press Control and a number to move directly to the space with that number (as seen left to right on the Mission Control screen). Or, if you have a multitouch trackpad, just swipe back and forth with three fingers—how easy is that?
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To move a window from one Space to another, click and drag the window off the edge of your screen toward the Space to which you want to move it.
To delete a Space, move the cursor over the Space’s thumbnail and click the X in the thumbnail’s upper-left corner.
To control which Space an application opens in, click and hold the application’s Dock icon to show its contextual menu.
From the contextual menu, choose This Desktop to keep the application in the current Space, All Desktops to make the application available in all Spaces, or None to