The Dock includes shortcuts to the applications and folders on your computer. As you add shortcuts to the Dock it can become difficult to see all of the icons, especially if you have low vision. (.mov, 5 MB). (HTML).
Mac Tip: Dock System Preferences For Mac OS X Lion Mark Greentree - Oct 9, 2011 This Mac tip is provided by Mark Greentree and was originally posted on Mark’s blog – Everyday Mac Support.
(Tagged PDF) To change the size of the Dock and make it easier to see:. Choose Apple, Dock, Dock Preferences.
Use the slider at the top of the window to change the Dock size (from Small to Large). To use a magnification effect, check the box next to Magnification and use the slider to set the amount of magnification. When this feature is enabled, the icons in the Dock will be magnified when you hover over them.
Another way to change the size of the Dock is by dragging up or down on the divider between the application and folder icons on the right side of the Dock.
To conserve screen clutter, the — the taskbarlike strip of program and folder shortcuts typically found along the bottom edge of the screen — can be set to hide from view when not in use. If you pass the mouse cursor along the area where the Dock normally lives, it reappears just long enough for you to click the program or icon you were looking for and disappears again when you move the mouse away. This hide-and-seek behavior can get triggered if you accidentally press the for the setting, which is Option-Command-D. To return the Mac’s Dock to its always-visible status, press Option-Command-D again to toggle the setting back the other way. Another way to make the Dock stop disappearing is to go under the Apple menu in the top left corner of the screen. Choose the System Preferences option and then click in the Dock icon on the screen of control panels. In the Dock Preferences box, remove the checkmark from the box next to “Automatically hide and show the Dock.” The Dock Preferences box has other settings you can adjust as well, including the size of the icons and the part of the screen (left, bottom or right) to anchor the Dock.
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Windows users looking for similar screen tidiness can make the Taskbar automatically hide itself when not in use. Just right-click in the Taskbar area and choose Properties from the menu. On the Taskbar tab, turn on the checkbox next to “Auto-hide the taskbar.” The Taskbar properties box has settings that can also be used to change the location of the Taskbar on the screen and the size of the icons.
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Click Apply and OK when finished.