Hey guys, thanks for tuning in.
This Nugget of Wisdom will show you
How to Customize the Dock on the Mac.
The assumptions made in this Nugget
are that you have a basic understanding
of the Mac desktop elements.
If you don't,
I recommend that you click the information
link at the top of this screen
and watch my Nugget of Wisdom titled
"The Mac desktop" before proceeding.
If the application you want
does not have a shortcut
pinned to the Dock,
there are a few options to launch it.
You can launch a "Finder" window
and navigate through the menu,
search with "Spotlight",
or you can use the "Launchpad".
The Launchpad is the fastest place
from where you would drag the icon
to pin it to the Dock.
The Launchpad has 35 icon placeholders
before things spill onto a new page
and like smartphones and tablets,
they can be grouped by dragging
an icon on to another.
This then creates a folder
which can then be renamed.
As I said in an earlier Nugget,
to pin an application to the Dock,
simply just drag the icon from the Launchpad
and place it on the Dock.
You can remove a shortcut from the Dock
with the right-click option
or drag it to the Trash Can
and if Launchpad itself is not on the Dock
you can drag this and/or other icons
from the "Finder" folders.
To exit Launchpad,
just click on the desktop.
I know we've gone a bit off-course here
but I thought the Launchpad
was a relevant part of the Dock.
So, back to the Dock.
Click on the Apple menu
and select "System Preferences"
and launch the Dock.
Just like dragging the divider
line on the Dock,
the "Size" slider is another
way to adjust the size of the Dock.
"Magnification" causes the size of
the Dock icon to increase
when the mouse is hovered over it.
"Position on Screen"
sets the location of the Dock.
You can minimize windows using the "Scale Effect",
or the "Genie".
"Prefer Tabs when opening",
I've currently got this set to "Always";
Now if I open up a few documents,
you can see that each page is in a tab.
Now I'll close these and change
the setting to "Full Screen Only".
Now when I reopen the documents
each will be a separate instance of the application,
unless I have the application already
set to "Full Screen" before I open them.
"Double-click the title bar"
either minimises the window
or zooms to full size.
Errr, it's not full width
because of the high resolution of the Mac.
Its only the full height.
I'll open the same three documents again.
When they are minimised,
notice that they are pinned
to the "Document side" of the Dock.
You can imagine that after a while
if you're anything like me
with lots of applications open
at the same time,
this would quickly become unmanageable.
Instead we can stack these
under the relevant application icon by ticking the
"Minimise Windows Into Application Icon".
Now if I minimise my documents once more,
the Dock remains nice and tidy.
To access a specific document which is open,
you can use the Right-Click context menu.
If you need to configure the Right-Click function
on a single button mouse,
click on the information link above
and watch my Nugget of Wisdom titled
How to Right-Click on a Mac.
"Automatically Hide the Dock"
does what it says:
the Dock is only visible when the mouse
hovers over the dock location.
Finally, "Show Indicators for open applications"
turns off the little black dots
which appear under the icons
of open applications.
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