Overview
Dock + Finder
Exposé
Quick Look
Spotlight
Safari
Mail, iCal, Address Book
iChat
iTunes
QuickTime X
Photo Booth
Time Machine
Core Foundation
Scripting
Graphics and Media
Instantly view all open windows in stunning style with a single keystroke. Exposé unshuffles overlapping windows on your desktop into an organized thumbnail view, so you can quickly locate and switch to any window or get to any file on the desktop.
From chaos to order.
If you like to work with many applications and documents at the same time, you probably spend time each day poking through your open windows just to uncover the one you need at the moment. Wouldn’t it be great if all you had to do was press one key to snap all of that window chaos into order?
That’s exactly what Exposé does. With one keystroke, Exposé instantly tiles all your open windows, scales them down, and neatly arranges them in a grid, so you can see what’s in every single one. And you definitely can see every one, because Exposé preserves the visual quality of the window in its reduced size. To see a full-screen preview, just press the Space bar.
That’s not all. Move from one tiled window to the next and you’ll see its title displayed at the bottom of the window. When you find the window you need, just click it. Magically, every window returns to full size, and the window you clicked — whether it’s a folder, a PDF, a QuickTime movie, or a Word document — becomes the active window.
Return to your desktop.
There’s one more feature in Exposé. Press one key to push all the windows aside, giving you instant access to your desktop. Once you grab what you need, another keypress brings all the windows back. Want to open a document? Check to see if the CD or DVD you’re burning in the background is ready? Or quickly locate and drag a file into an email as an enclosure? Exposé makes it easy.
Exposé Basics
Watch how Exposé helps you cut through the clutter of open application windows.
Watch nowAll-new: Exposé in the Dock.
Exposé not only tiles all your open windows, it also lets you view the open windows of a particular application. For example, say you’re a Keynote maestro and often have up to a dozen documents open at the same time. Exposé makes finding the one you need incredibly easy. Just click and hold the Keynote icon in the Dock, and Exposé tiles your Keynote windows while causing the windows of other applications to fade away. The clutter cleared, you can easily find the document you need. A click makes it the active window, and pressing the Space bar gives you a full-screen preview of the window. Prefer keyboard shortcuts? You can tile application windows with a keystroke, too.
And that’s not all you can do with Exposé in the Dock. When you drag a file onto a Dock icon, all the application’s open windows pop up, so you can place the file in the right window — perfect if you want to attach a document to an email message.
