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Mac OS X Leopard - ARCAism

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CHAPTER 3 USING SPOTLIGHT, EXP<strong>OS</strong>É, SPACES, AND DASHBOARD<br />

Figure 3-7. Spotlight technology in the Help menu can help you find application menu items.<br />

Using Exposé and Spaces<br />

Besides Spotlight, some other nice features are built in to <strong>Leopard</strong> that can be summoned as necessary.<br />

The first two we’ll talk about are Exposé and Spaces.<br />

Exposé and Spaces help you find and manage open applications and application windows.<br />

Both Exposé and Spaces do this by manipulating your work area, but each of them does this in<br />

different ways.<br />

Exposé<br />

Exposé works within your current work area or desktop by moving, shrinking, and highlighting<br />

your current windows in ways that are incredibly useful, especially if you are working with many<br />

open windows at once.<br />

Exposé provides three distinct views: “All windows” view, “Application windows” view,<br />

and Desktop view. Each view provides certain benefits.<br />

You can trigger the “All windows” view (Figure 3-8) by default by hitting the F9 key. This<br />

view will shrink and arrange all the windows open on your current desktop so that they are all<br />

visible; from this view you can mouse over and select the particular window you’d like to bring<br />

to the foreground.<br />

NOTE On Apple computers, the F-keys (aka function keys) are often used for controlling<br />

things such as the brightness of the screen, the volume, and other features. This is especially<br />

true with <strong>Mac</strong>Books and <strong>Mac</strong>Book Pros that by default have the F-keys set to control these<br />

features. In such a case you must use Fn+[F-key] to activate the desired F-key. If you would<br />

rather have the F-keys work as the F-keys by default, you can set this behavior in the Keyboard<br />

& Mouse preference pane.

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