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Take a gander at the top of a window — any window. You see three buttons in the top-left corner and the name of the window to the right of the Back and Forward icons. The three buttons (called gumdrop buttons by some folks because they look like, well, gumdrops) are officially known as Close, Minimize, and Zoom, and their colors (red, yellow, and green, respectively) are designed to pop off the screen.

Here’s what they do:

 Close (red): Click this button to close the window.

 Minimize (yellow): Click this button to minimize the window. Clicking Minimize appears to close the window, but instead of making it disappear, Minimize adds an icon for the window to the right side of the dock. See the section about minimizing windows into application icons in Chapter 3 if a document icon doesn’t appear in your dock when you minimize the document's window.To view the window again, click the dock icon for the window that you minimized. If the window happens to be a QuickTime movie, the movie audio continues to play and a tiny still image from the video appears as its icon in the dock. (I discuss the dock in detail in Chapter 3.)

 Zoom (green): Click a window’s green Zoom button, and the window expands to cover the whole screen, including the menu bar. If you prefer the old behavior, where a window zoomed to the largest size it could but didn’t cover the full screen, hold down the Option key when you click the green button.To shrink the window back to its previous dimensions, slide the cursor up to the very top of the screen, wait for the menu bar to appear, and then click the green Zoom button.Another way to escape from a full-screen window, at least in Finder, is to press the Esc key on your keyboard. Sadly, this trick doesn’t work with all apps, though it’s quite useful in apps that support it (most Apple apps and many others) as well as in Finder.Split View is semi-hidden beneath the green Zoom button. To see Split View in action, first click the green button for a moment — that is, perform the first half of a click without releasing the button. Or hover the cursor over the Zoom button for a moment (without clicking).Either way, a pop-up menu with three (or more) options appears; select Enter Full Screen, Tile Window to Left of Screen, or Tile Window to Right of Screen. You may see additional options to move the window to a different device (such as an iPad) via Sidecar if a suitable device is close enough to your Mac (see Chapter 27).After assigning a window to the left or right half of the screen, the other half displays miniature versions of all open windows. Hover the cursor over a miniature window to see its name; click a miniature window and it fills that half of the screen.To work in Split View, click either window to activate it and do what you have to do. To activate the other window, click it. To exit Split View, do one of the following:Press Esc.Move the pointer to the top of the screen; when the buttons (for both windows) reappear, click any button.Quit either application.