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Figure 1-6. When Steve Jobs unveiled Mac OS X at a Macworld Expo in 1999, he said that his goal was to oversee the creation of an interface so attractive, "you just want to lick it." | Figure 1-6. When Steve Jobs unveiled Mac OS X at a Macworld Expo in 1999 he said that his goal was to oversee the creation of an interface so attractive you just want to lick it. Desktop windows with their juicy fruit-flavored controls are a good starting point. The universal keyboard equivalent of the Close button is -W for window a keystroke well worth memorizing. If you get into the habit of dismissing windows with that deft flex of your left hand you ll find it far easier to close several windows in a row because you don t have to aim for successive Close buttons. In many programs something special happens if you re pressing the Option key when using the Close button or its -W equivalent You close all open windows. This trick is especially useful in the Finder where a quest for a particular document may have left your screen plastered with open windows for which you have no further use. Option- clicking the Close button of any one window or pressing Option- -W closes all of them. On the other hand the Option-key trick doesn t close all windows in every program only those in the current program. Option-closing a Pages document closes all Pages windows but your Finder windows remain open. Moreover Option-closing works only in enlightened applications. In this department Microsoft is not yet enlightened. . Minimize Button Click this yellow drop of gel to minimize any Mac window sending it shrinking with a genie-like animated effect into the right end of the Dock where it then appears as an icon. The window isn t gone and it hasn t even closed. It s just out of your way for the moment as though you ve set it down on a shelf. To bring it back click the newly created Dock icon see Figure 1-7 as well as Chapter 4 for more on the Dock. Minimizing a window in this way is a great window-management tool. In the Finder minimizing a window lets you see whatever icons were hiding behind it. In a word processor this technique lets you type a memo that requires frequent .