7 Useful Dock Shortcuts & Key Commands
The Dock is a major part of most Mac OS X users daily lives, for application launching, storage of minimzed windows, trash recepticle, decoration holder, and more. There’s quicker ways to do things through the Dock though, and even some cool tips that you might not have known about, like command clicking on an icon to reveal its Finder location. Get the most out of the Dock with this list of useful key commands and shortcuts.
| Action Outcome | Key Commands |
| Hide all other applications | Command-Option click an App’s icon in Dock |
| Reveal a Dock item’s location in the Finder | Command click on the icon in the Dock |
| Move a Dock item to somewhere else on the hard drive | Command drag the icon from the Dock to new destination |
| Force a file to open in a specific program | While dragging the file onto an app’s icon in the Dock, hold Command-Option |
| Change Quit to Force Quit | Hold Option while in Dock menu |
| Force the Dock to only resize to non-interpolated icon sizes | Hold Option while dragging Dock separator |
| Move Dock to left, bottom, right side of screen | Hold Shift and drag Dock divider |
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Comments: 2
Comment from jonvdveen
Time: January 11, 2007, 12:30 am
Finally some life here at OSX Daily. I was starting to think that the blog had died out. That would have been unfortunate. Keep those apps and tip coming!
Cheerio.
Comment from MIKE
Time: February 23, 2008, 7:40 pm
Does anyone know how I can bring back my dashboard & address book icon back into the dock on my desktop after I mistakenly hid or quit them..thanks for any help you can give me!!
Mike
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