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Jan 11, 2021 Power button: Press to turn on your Mac or wake it from sleep. Press and hold for 1.5 seconds to put your Mac to sleep. Continue holding to force your Mac to turn off. Option–Command–Power button. or Option–Command–Media Eject: Put your Mac to sleep. The Option key is a modifier key present on Apple keyboards.It is located between the Control key and Command key on a typical Mac keyboard. There are two Option keys on modern (as of 2020) Mac desktop and notebook keyboards, one on each side of the space bar.

1. Window buttons

Window buttons

In the upper-left corner of each window are three little buttons: red, yellow, and green. These are in color in the active window (the one in front) and gray in all other windows behind that one.

Close a window (red button)

Use the red button, the Close button, to close a window.

1. If you don't have a window open, single-click the Finder icon in the Dock to open one.
2. To close the window, single-click the red button. This puts it away, back into the folder or disk it came from.

Zoom a window (green button)

Use the green button, called the Zoom button, to zoom a window larger or smaller. How large or small the window becomes depends on what is in the window and how large or small it was before you clicked the button.

1. If you don't have a window open, single-click the Finder icon in the Dock to open one.
2. Single-click the green button to zoom the window large enough to see everything, or to zoom it smaller.

Minimize a window (yellow button)

When you minimize a window, you send a tiny icon of that window down to the Dock, to the right side of the dividing line. Whenever you want to see that particular window again, you can open it straight from the Dock.

Exercise 1: Minimize the window and open it again.

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• Single-click the yellow button to minimize the window, which sends the window down into the Dock, as shown below.
• To open a minimized window, single-click its icon in the Dock.

Minimize windows into application icon

If you're feeling comfortable with minimizing windows, try this—make minimized windows hide behind the application icon in the Dock so they don't take up space. Just set this preference, below, and then watch the windows minimize behind their Dock icons.

Exercise 2: Minimize windows into application icons.

1. From the Apple menu, choose 'System Preferences....'
2. Single-click the 'Dock' icon.
3. In the pane (shown to the right), check the box to 'Minimize windows into application icon.'
4. Close the preferences (click the red button, upper left).

Control features on your Mac

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By default, the top row of keys on your Apple keyboard control many different features on your Mac. For example, pressing the keys with speaker icons adjusts the volume.

If your Mac has a Touch Bar, learn about using function keys on MacBook Pro with Touch Bar.

Use standard function keys

Standard function keys work differently depending on the app and the keyboard shortcuts that you've set up. Some apps have their own keyboard shortcut preferences that you can customize.

To use the standard function keys, hold the Function (Fn)/Globe key when pressing a function key. For example, pressing both Fn and F12 (speaker icon) performs the action assigned to the F12 key instead of raising the volume of your speakers.

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If your keyboard doesn’t have an Fn key, try pressing and holding the Control key when pressing a function key.

Change the default function key behavior

If you want to change the top row of keys to work as standard function keys without holding the Fn key, follow these steps:

1. Choose Apple menu  > System Preferences.
2. Click Keyboard.
3. Select 'Use F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys'.

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If you don't see 'Use F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys'

If you don't see 'Use F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys', you might be using a keyboard not made by Apple. These keyboards might need a utility to change the keyboard functions. Check with your keyboard manufacturer for more information.

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Learn about using function keys on MacBook Pro with Touch Bar.