No tags or Task Bar? How do I switch between application programs?

No tags or Task Bar? How do I switch between application programs?

You may be used to using the task bar to switch between program applications you have open. That looks like this:

On a Mac, you don't have a task bar along the bottom of the screen! But you can, of course, switch between program on a Mac. Here's how:

Activity: Switching between programs

1) Open several programs. (Click here if you're not sure how to do this.)

2) Over at the far right of the menu bar is a menu called an Application Menu. If you call that menu down you'll see a list of all the open applications. You can use this menu to switch between open applications. It looks like this:

Note that the menu item with the check mark is the application in the foreground. Highlight one of the menu items and click on it and then it will become the application in the foreground.

That's all there is to it!

Why no document window?

Switching to the application you want still may not make you happy. You may expect to see a document window (you know, where you type (if it's a word processing program)). If you don't see this after you switch to a program all you likely need do is call down the file menu to New. That will open a new document window.

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