As a matter of fact you can look in the Preferences and you can see all the snapping here. The same thing with the upper right and other corners. For instance, if I were to drag and again not pay attention to the window itself but the cursor, and go to the upper left you can see it will lock into the size here at the upper left. You can see it gets me really exactly what I wanted. If I drag to the top center here and get it right at the center, ah there it goes, you can see that it expands this little rounded rectangle to indicate that if I release here I will make the entire window as big as possible. For instance, if I were to drag this to the top center, now it's not important where the window is, it's important where my cursor is. Then all your windows behave in a special way. Basically BetterSnap Tool, once you run it and it's going, you get this little menu item here which allows you to access the Preferences and do all sorts of things. I'll put a link to it in the Notes for this episode at. There is something a lot of people like and you can get it in the Mac App Store. Now if you want even more control than that you can go to a cheap third party app. So that might get you what you want as far as control in one action. If I Shift and drag here I'm hold the left side steady. Now even if you are familiar with those modifications of dragging the edges of the window bet you didn't know that if you grabbed an edge and held the Shift key down and you dragged you basically are expanding three sides and holding the opposite side steady. You can very quickly fill the entire screen with this window in just that one quick action as long as you kind of drag it starting at a the upper left to begin with. Hold the Option key down and you drag the corner out. You can also do the corner, the bottom right corner, if you move the window up here so the bottom right corner is furthest away from the right side and the bottom. So it is very easy to quickly get something like that going just by dragging two edges. I'll drag the bottom and hold the Option key down and the top moves up and it stops there at the top. If I do that notice on the left side it stops when it gets to the edge so all I need to do is drag all the way to the right, the left side I get for free. So what you need to do here is you need to drag the edge that is clearly furthest away from the edge of the screen. That will drag not only that edge but the other edge in equal amount. Then you can do that for basically every side even including the top and you can quickly get it to fill the entire space no matter what the content is here in the middle.Ī quicker way to do this is to get that double sided cursor and hold the Option key down. The neat thing about this is it actually stops right at the edge so you can drag all the way over. So you move the cursor over the edge of the window and you get that little double sided arrow there. Well there is a couple tricks you can use and there is also an app that a lot of people like. So how can you get more precise control over your windows. Option click is going to not fill the screen but it is simply going to expand to be as big as it needs to be to show you all the stuff. The same thing here for the Finder window. So it really depends on what you are doing. I actually have to go to 200 here for it to fill the screen because there is actually more to be shown here then there is space for. If I were to zoom to 150 and then Option and click the green button you can see it gets even bigger but doesn't quite fill the screen. Here you can see now the window fills the entire document so there is no need to go more to the left or the right. So I can achieve somewhat what I want by Option clicking on the green button, so I hold the Option key down and I click and it will expand to fill the space but not any larger than what this window needs. The window is now filling an entire desktop space. Hitting the green button here actually changes the app to be a full screen app. I would also like it to fill the the screen. I would love it if they would stick there so I could just move it to the left. I can move them around but they go beyond the edges of the screen to the left and right. Here I've got a Pages document in a window and I've got a Finder window here. So, if you're like me you like to have precise control over the size and position of windows that you are working with. On this episode let's take a look at precisely managing the position and size of the windows on your Mac. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with. Check out Precise Positioning and Resizing Of Your Mac Windows at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.
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