Exposé

If you’re like most Mac OS X users, you probably have multiple applications and windows open at the same time while you work. The result can be a cluttered screen, with many layers of windows hiding other windows and the desktop.

Exposé helps solve the problem of screen clutter by making it easy to see all open windows in all applications (Figure 16), all open windows in a single application (Figure 18), or the entire desktop (Figure 20) at once. Simply press one of Exposé’s shortcut keys (Table 1) to see what you need to see.

Table 1. Standard Shortcut Keys for Exposé
KeyDescription

Displays all open windows at once.
Displays all open windows ...

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