Mac OS X Hints: the insider tips you won't get from Apple.

Macworld, April, 2007 by Griffiths, Rob; McElhearn, Kirk

Minimize All of a Program's Windows

OS X's window-minimizing feature shrinks an open window and stores it on the right-hand side of your Dock (as long as you haven't moved the Dock off the bottom of the screen). This is a handy way to leave a window open for future reference without having it take up space on your desktop. There are a couple of ways to minimize a window to the Dock--press [??]-M, or just click on the yellow button in the top left corner of an open window. When you need the window again, click on it in the Dock, and it will return to full size.

But what if you want to minimize all of an application's open windows? Try holding down the option key before clicking on the minimize button (see "Minimize an Application's Windows"). In...

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