Instantly access any open window with a single keystroke and stunning style that can never be imitated. Display all open windows as thumbnails, view windows of the current application or hide all windows to quickly locate a file on your desktop.
Admit it, Mac OS X has you spoiled. Youve become so used to its reliability that you dont hesitate to have a dozen applications running at the same time. Which means, of course, that you probably spend a fair amount of time each day poking through open windows and documents just to uncover the one you need at the moment.
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So wouldnt it be great if all you had to do was hit one hot key to snap all of that window chaos into order?
Thats exactly what Exposé does. Type the F9 key and Exposé instantly tiles all of your open windows, scales them down and neatly arranges them, so you can see whats in every single one. And you definitely can see every one because Exposé works hand-in-hand with Quartz (the graphics engine behind everything you see in Mac OS X Tiger) to animate the scaling and preserve the visual quality of the window in its reduced size.
Thats not all. Move your mouse from one tiled window to the next and youll see its title displayed right in the center of the window. When you find the window you need, just click on it. Magically, every window will return to full size and the window you clicked whether its a folder, a PDF, a QuickTime movie or a Word document becomes the active window.
Impressed? Wait till you hear this: Exposé has two more tricks up its sleeve.
Say youre one prodigious Photoshop phenom and often have up to a dozen documents open at the same time. Exposé makes finding the one you need incredibly easy. Type the F10 key, and Exposé instantly tiles all of your open Photoshop windows while causing all of the open windows of other applications to fade to a delightful shade of grey. The clutter cleared, you can easily find the document you need. A mouse click makes it the active window. Plus you can use the tab key to switch between open applications and associated tiled windows.
Heres Looking at You, Kid
They say the third times a charm and with Exposé it certainly is. Type the F11 key and Exposé hides all open windows, giving you instant access to your desktop. Want to open a document you just downloaded? Check to see if the CD or DVD youre burning in the background is ready? Or quickly locate and drag a file into an email as an enclosure? Exposé makes it a snap.