User manual

A Mac OS 10.3 Panther overview

AppleSauce

November 2003

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The new Action button brings up a contextual menu

based on the current selection. It lets you perform tasks

such as aliasing, printing, sending files to the Trash, and

labeling files and folders by colour, an old favourite from

OS 9.

The Finder has a greatly improved search function, sim-

ilar to the one in iTunes and Mail, which shows results

as you type.

Exposé

Panther’s new Exposé feature can help you quickly sort

through the chaos of several applications running at

once. You can set keyboard shortcuts and hot corners to

manage your clutter, so you don’t have to hide, move,

and minimise open windows to find the one that you

need.

You can activate Exposé by its default function keys, set

your own keyboard shortcuts, or assign each of its three

viewing modes to a different corner of your screen. Once

you’ve assigned a viewing mode to a screen corner, you

move your cursor to that corner to switch to that mode.

Choose the first mode to view all open windows. Exposé

shrinks and places each window so they all fit on screen

without overlapping. The more items you have open, the

smaller each window becomes (this may make it hard to

identify windows, especially if you have a small moni-

tor). But as you mouse over each minimised window, the

name of the application, folder, or document appears.

When you click on a window, it pops to the front and the

others go back to their original positions.