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Maximizing windows & the Dock
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<blockquote data-quote="cwa107" data-source="post: 620830" data-attributes="member: 24098"><p>The green button does not do the same thing as the maximize button does in Windows (although on the surface it appears to). The green button is considered the "zoom" button, meaning, it will expand the window as large as needed so as to display everything within it. In some cases, it will fill all available screen space, but in general, it's just used to make the window open as large as it needs to in order to display the data within it properly. </p><p></p><p>Yet again, this is another eccentricity to OS X, and something you have to get used to when switching from Windows.</p><p></p><p>One of the ways you can keep the dock from obstructing your view is to have it auto-hide (System Preferences => Dock => "automatically hide and show the dock", or you can position it to the left or right (which usually yields the needed space since modern Macs all use a widescreen).</p><p></p><p>EDIT: Just to add that I keep my dock at the bottom, relatively small and use the zoom feature to offset the size.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cwa107, post: 620830, member: 24098"] The green button does not do the same thing as the maximize button does in Windows (although on the surface it appears to). The green button is considered the "zoom" button, meaning, it will expand the window as large as needed so as to display everything within it. In some cases, it will fill all available screen space, but in general, it's just used to make the window open as large as it needs to in order to display the data within it properly. Yet again, this is another eccentricity to OS X, and something you have to get used to when switching from Windows. One of the ways you can keep the dock from obstructing your view is to have it auto-hide (System Preferences => Dock => "automatically hide and show the dock", or you can position it to the left or right (which usually yields the needed space since modern Macs all use a widescreen). EDIT: Just to add that I keep my dock at the bottom, relatively small and use the zoom feature to offset the size. [/QUOTE]
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