OS X Mountain Lion Portable Genius

Using Multiple Desktops with Spaces

Spaces is an organizational tool that lets you create multiple spaces for certain tasks. Spaces are essentially additional desktops. You could have a space for surfing the web and checking e-mail, another space to watch your stocks, a third space to work on a spreadsheet, and so on.

Adding and removing spaces

You can have as many as 16 spaces at one time. There’s nothing magical about adding or removing spaces:

1. Launch Mission Control.

2. Move your mouse pointer to the upper-right corner of the screen and a plus sign (+) appears, as shown in Figure 1.16.

1.16 Click the plus sign (+) to add new spaces.

3. Click the plus sign (+) to add a new space to the top of the Mission Control window.

You can remove spaces just as easily as you add them:

1. Launch Mission Control.

2. Move your mouse pointer to the upper-left corner of the space you want to remove and a small circle containing an X appears, as shown in Figure 1.17.

3. Click the X to remove the space.

1.17 To remove a space, click the X.

Moving between spaces

There are a few ways to jump from space to space:

Launch Mission Control and click the space to which you want to move.