January 2016
Intermediate to advanced
804 pages
28h 40m
English
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Full Screen Mode
Features are great and all. But the more of them your software accumulates, the more toolbars and icon panels fill the screen, and the bigger the clutter problem becomes. After a while, all that “chrome” (as software designers call it) winds up crowding out the document you’re actually trying to work on.
That’s why Apple invented Full Screen mode. It’s not available in all programs, but it’s showing up in more and more of them—including almost all Apple programs: App Store, Calendar, Chess, Final Cut Pro, Font Book, Game Center, GarageBand, iBooks, iMovie, iTunes, Keynote, Mail, Maps, Messages, Notes, Photo Booth, Photos, Preview, Safari, and so on.
To take a program into Full Screen mode, click the Full Screen button: the round, green dot in the upper-left corner of the document window. (And how do you know if your program even offers Full Screen mode? As your cursor approaches the green dot button, a tiny double-arrow logo appears inside: 
. If it’s a 
instead, then the app isn’t eligible for Full Screening.)
When you click the green , the Mac hides the menu bar, scroll bars, Dock, status bars, and any other bars or palettes surrounding your work area. The window’s edges ...
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