Working with windows

HIDE APPS TEMPORARILY

01 You can hide an app’s windows without quitting it: Ctrl-click its Dock icon and pick Hide, press Cmd+H, or hold Opt when you click another app’s icon to switch to it. Or, use Cmd+Opt+H to hide all other apps.

JUMP BETWEEN WINDOWS

02 Save time jumping between windows in the same app: press Cmd+` (the key next to Z); repeat to go to the next or press Shift+Cmd+` to go to the last — helpful when repeatedly going between two windows.

MAXIMISE WINDOWS

03 Clicking a window’s green button (top left) ‘zooms’ to what’s thought to be the best fit for its contents. To make a window fill the desktop instead, hold Opt and then doubleclick one of its corners.

MINIMISED WINDOWS

04 A window’s yellow button shrinks it into the Dock’s right side; for tidiness, turn on ‘Minimise windows into app icon’ in the Dock’s prefs. Click and hold a Dock icon (or use App Exposé) to get windows back.

MERGE WINDOWS

05 Want to turn an app’s windows into tabs? In some apps, drag one window onto another; in others, use Window > Merge All Windows. To revert, drag a tab out or use Window > Move Tab to New Window.

REOPEN WINDOWS

06 In High Sierra, by default, opening an app restores its windows. Tick ‘Close windows when quitting apps’ in System Prefs > General to change it. Alternatively, hold Opt and Quit to ‘Quit and Close All Windows.’