Leopard: Using Expose with Spaces

November 29th, 2007 at 2:00 PM - Tips by Jeff Gamet

Exposé is great for finding specific document windows, and Leopardis Spaces feature is great for organizing your application windows on their own virtual Desktops. Put the two together, and you have an even better tool for keeping track of everything you are working on.

If you arenit already using Spaces you can enable the feature in the Mac OS X 10.5 System Preferences applications.

• Choose Apple menu > System Preferences.
• Click Exposé & Spaces.
• Check Enable Spaces.

Invoking Spaces is easy: Just tap the F8 key. All of your virtual Desktops, or Spaces, will appear on your display. You can drag open windows from space to space, and click on a window or Desktop to switch to a specific space.

To view all of your open windows in every space at the same time, first press the F8 key, and then press the F9 key. First, all of your spaces will appear, and then every window in each space will arrange for easy viewing. If the contents of a window is too small to make out, just roll your mouse pointer over that window to see the document or application name.

I tend to have lots of Mail message windows open at once, and sometimes those windows are scattered across several virtual Desktops. Using Exposé along with Spaces lets me quickly find just the document or email message I need without spending much time hunting -- regardless of which virtual Desktop it may be hiding on.

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