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Minimizing a window by clicking the yellow “minimize” button or using this keyboard shortcut doesn’t close it instead, it moves a small thumbnail image of the window down to the right side of the menu bar.

Press Command ( ⌘ ), Option, and W keys at the same time, and all of those open windows are closed.ģ) Minimize the current window (Command + M) You really don’t want to have to click the close button on every one of those windows, do you? To close all open windows in an application or the Finder, just add the Option key to the first keyboard shortcut listed above. You’ve been doing a lot of photo cropping in the Preview app and you have a hundred windows that are all open. Boom - it’s closed.Ģ) Close all open windows (Command + Option + W) To close an active open window, just press the Command ( ⌘ ) and W keys. However, it’s not something that a lot of new Mac users seem to be aware of, so it bears repeating here. It’s a very common keyboard shortcut to use, and it can save a lot of time and poking around with your favorite pointing device. This keyboard shortcut has been around since the first Macs rolled out of the factories back in 1984. Today we’re going to focus on one variety of keyboard shortcut: shortcuts that are targeted at managing Mac windows.ġ) Close the current window (Command + W)