Mac OS X Tiger Pocket Guide

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Part III: Mac OS X Basics

Window Tips

The following are tips for working with windows:

Open a new window?

File

➝ Open (c-O).

Close a window?

File

➝ Close (c-W).

Close all open windows for an application?

Option-click on the red close window button.

NOTE

If there are changes that need to be saved in any of the

windows being closed, you are prompted to save the

changes. Either hit Return to save the changes, or

c-D to

invoke the Don’t Save button. In some applications, a

quick way to tell whether a window has unsaved changes

is to look at the red close window button; if there is a dark

red circle in its center, the document needs to be saved.

Minimize a window?

Click on the yellow minimize button.

Window

➝ Minimize Window (c-M).

Double-click on the window’s titlebar.

Minimize all open windows for a single application?

Option-

c-M.

NOTE

With some applications, Option-c-M might function dif-

ferently. For example, issuing Option-

c-M in Microsoft

Word (Office Versions X and 2004) opens the Paragraph

format window (Format

➝ Paragraph). Other applica-

tions that won’t minimize all of the windows with this

shortcut include the iChat AV, QuickTime Player, Termi-

nal, and TextEdit. To be safe, you should save changes to

the file before trying to minimize all the application’s

windows with Option-c-M.

Window Controls

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