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macOS Sonoma For Dummies
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macOS Sonoma For Dummies

by Guy Hart-Davis
November 2023
Beginner content levelBeginner
480 pages
12h 13m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 5

Getting Fancy with the Desktop and Finder

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Organizing your desktop with Stacks

Bullet Adding widgets to your desktop

Bullet Automating tasks with Quick Actions

Bullet Editing image, video, and audio files without an application

Bullet Capturing stills and movies of your screen

In this chapter, you first learn how to organize your desktop with Stacks and how to decorate it with widgets that display information you want to have available at a glance. You then move on to handling tasks swiftly using Quick Actions and capturing screenshots and screen recordings.

Cleaning Up Your Desktop Automatically with Stacks

Putting icons on the desktop can be a great way of giving yourself access to key files. The problem is that your desktop may end up looking like Figure 5-1 — or worse.

Good news: Your Mac’s Stacks feature lets you streamline your desktop in moments. Click the desktop to make it active, and you can organize it with Stacks in three ways:

FIGURE 5-1: A messy, disorganized desktop. ...

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