If you use it together with Mission Control, it can feel almost like using multiple separate displays.

But to help you do it all by yourself, weve gathered our best ideas and solutions below.

The app youre working in takes over the whole screen and both the Dock and the menu bar slide out of view although to get them back all you have to do is move the pointer to the bottom or top of the screen.

Keyboard Control For Screen Full Screen Mode

However, it definitely helps if you learn those gestures, along with the keyboard commands and other methods of using full screen mode on Mac.

Often thats because they have their own implementation of full-screen mode, or because they keep toolbars and palettes separate from document windows.

If it shows two arrows pointing outwards inside the green button, you can use it with full-screen mode.

Push the mouse pointer up to the top left of the screen until the three colored dots appear, then click on the green one.

However, if youre in full-screen mode, the yellow dot wont be visible, so youll need to exit it first.

To display a window after minimizing it, just find it in the Dock and click on it.

When you use full-screen mode with a document or application, its allocated its own workspace.

If you press the Mission Control button (F3), youll see all the workspaces and full-screen apps youre currently using.

If you hover over one with the mouse pointer, youll see the name of the app or document appear below the thumbnail.

Once the full-screen apps and workspaces are in view along the top of the screen, you can drag the windows around to put them in the order you want them.

Thats particularly useful if you use gestures to move between screens.

You can then swipe left and right with three fingers on the trackpad to move quickly between full-screen apps and documents.

For example, if you need to check numbers in a table in a Google doc against those in a spreadsheet in Numbers.

Just put Safari and Numbers in full-screen mode, then use Mission Control to position the desktops next to each other so you can quickly swipe between them.

Keyboard Control For Screen Free Modes And

Many writing apps now have distraction-free modes and displaying them full screen allows you to get the most from that method of working.

Likewise, when youre watching a video, full-screen mode enhances the experience.

If none of those works, try quitting the app and then re-launching it.

Check the boxes next to Run Maintenance Scripts and Repair Disk Permissions.

Click Run.

The app will quickly scan your system and find all the junk that slows it down.

Dont miss a chance to make your Mac as good as new in just 2 clicks.

Keyboard Control For Full Screen Mac