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7 Useful Dock Shortcuts & Key Commands
January 6th, 2007 - Mac OS X, Tips & Tricks
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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