![]() ![]() Mission Control will disappear, and the window you selected will become active. To navigate to one of the open windows, just move your pointer over it and click. If you have multiple windows open in a single application, those windows will, by default, be grouped together in a kind of stack.įor example, open Safari and Calendar and engage Mission Control, and Safari’s windows will appear in one area and Calendar’s windows in another. Open another application (and a window within that application) and you’ll spy each application’s windows and accompanying icons. Open a single application and then open a window within that application, and you’ll see that window along with an icon representing the application. If you have no applications open-as would be the case if you’ve just started your Mac-you’ll see nothing in the larger window but the Finder’s desktop pattern and then the Dashboard and Desktop windows above. What you see once you do this depends on the applications and windows you have open. (If you have a Mac with a trackpad, you can get to this same view by swiping up on the trackpad with three fingers.) To leave this view, just click the larger of the three windows (or swipe down with three fingers on a trackpad). Suddenly, you’re viewing your Mac’s desktop in a smaller view, with two even smaller windows above-one titled Dashboard and the other, Desktop. The easiest way to get a grip on Mission Control’s Exposé-like features is to click the Mission Control icon in the Dock, or to press either the F3 key (or Control and the up arrow key) on your Mac’s keyboard. My job is to explain how these Mission Control features now work. But for our purposes, that’s water under the bridge. Longtime Mac users may grumpily hint that not every feature found in Exposé and Spaces made it into Mission Control. With Mac OS X Lion, Apple combined these two features into one and named it Mission Control. To switch tasks, you’d simply move to a different workspace. And in yet another, you’d open a word processor or spreadsheet application to get “serious” work done. In another space, you’d open iPhoto and Photoshop Elements to work with your images. So, you’d put the applications you needed for organizing your life in one place (Mail, Address Book and iCal, for example). The idea was that you’d organize each workspace by the kind of work you were doing. Spaces was a feature that allowed you to create multiple virtual desktops that acted as individual workspaces. ![]() Or you could choose to temporarily banish all open windows from the screen in order to interact with a file on the desktop. Or you could view just a particular application’s open windows in their diminished size and select the one you wanted to work with. Specifically, you could reduce all open windows to tiny representations of those windows, move your pointer to the one you wanted to activate, and click on it to bring it to the fore in its full size. Exposé was designed so that you could temporarily clear away the junk on your Mac’s desktop and focus on a particular interface element. ![]()
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