Lesson 17. Mission Control to Organize Your Space

Goals

Understand the concept of Mission Control to manage your open applications and files

Take advantage of Spaces to organize your work

Use Exposé to clear your screen when necessary

Use Dock Exposé to find open files in an application

Make your life easier with widgets in Dashboard

Mission Control presents an organized view of all your open windows, enabling you to easily and quickly find anything you need on a cluttered, messy Desktop. It also lets you create different Spaces in which to work and stay organized. For instance, you can do all of your word processing in one Space, browse the web with Safari in another Space, use Messages or FaceTime in their own Spaces, and easily switch between ...

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