All About the Dock - Mac OS
Every Mac owner is familiar with the Dock - it’s where you store shortcuts to your most used applications and files. However, the Dock can do so much more! Watch this video to learn all the Dock basics such as: moving the Dock, hiding the Dock, adding Dock items and removing them. Plus more advanced features such as: magnifying apps, animating apps opening, app open indicators, creating stacks and several Dock shortcuts. Revisit your Dock and make it work for you!
Quick Jump Guide:
0:47 - Dock basics
1:49 - Adding Dock items
2:20 - Moving the Dock
2:42 - Deleting Dock items
3:26 - Dock preferences (size, magnification, position, hide, animate app opening, app open indicators)
11:03 - Dock shortcuts - size
11:20 - Dock shortcuts - trash
11:22 - Dock shortcuts - item options menu
11:34 - Dock shortcuts - stacks
Dock shortcuts (shown in video, plus bonus tips)
-Change the Dock’s size: Place the pointer over the separator until a double arrow appears, then drag the Dock to make it larger or smaller
-See an item’s shortcut menu: Control-click (right click) the item
-See the Dock shortcut menu: Control-click the separator
-Empty the Trash: Control-click the Trash, then choose Empty Trash
-See an app’s open windows: Control-click the app’s icon, then choose Show All Windows
-Add an open app to the Dock: Control-click the app’s icon, then choose Options - Keep in Dock
-Open an item in the Finder: Command-click the item’s icon, or Control-click the icon, then choose Options - Show in Finder
-Switch to the previous app and hide the current app: Option-click the current app’s icon
-Switch to another app and hide all other apps: Option-Command-click the icon of the app you want to switch to
-Quit an open app: Control-click the app’s icon, then choose Quit
-Force an app to quit: Control-Option-click the app’s icon, then choose Force Quit
-Use the keyboard to access the Dock: Press Control-F3 (Control-Fn-F3 on a portable) to move to the Dock - then use the Left Arrow / Right Arrow keys to move from icon to icon - press Return to open an item
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