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Widgets give you quick access to light-duty, special-purpose applications and information from built-in Mac OS applications such as your Address Book. When you need to check the time in another time zone while you're on a conference call, verify a prospect's email address, type yourself a note in Stickies or look up the meaning of a word, widgets put quick answers at your fingertips, along with entertainment, sports and lifestyle information. To access and manage your widgets on a MacBook Pro, reveal your Dashboard.
1.Enter the Mission Control view of all your current open windows and running applications from the Finder. Slide three fingers upward on your MacBook Pro's trackpad -- a three-finger swipe -- to bring up Mission Control, and click on the 'Dashboard' space at the top of the screen to reveal the Dashboard.
2.Rearrange your current widgets by clicking and dragging them into a different sequence. Click on the circled '+' button at the bottom left screen corner to reveal the Widget Bar so you can view all the widgets installed on your computer. Use the arrows at both ends of the Widget Bar to scroll horizontally through the widgets.
3.Click on a widget's icon in the Widget Bar to make the widget appear in Dashboard. To download widgets and add them to Dashboard, click the Manage Widgets button and click on the 'More Widgets' button at the bottom of the widget screen that appears. Your Web browser takes you to the widget-download page on the Apple website.
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Click on the circled 'X' close button on any widget to remove it from Dashboard. Click on the equivalent close button at the bottom left screen corner to close the Widget Bar.
4.Click on the 'i' info button of any widget to customize it. Some widgets flip over to reveal options, such as degree-scales and locations for a weather widget, teams for a sports-score widget or stocks for a financial-performance widget. Widgets with no info buttons offer no customization options.
5.Toggle Dashboard closed when you finish customizing its widgets. Use another three-finger swipe upwards to return to Mission Control, where you can click on a desktop thumbnail.
Tip
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- Hiding a widget doesn't remove it from your computer.
Warning
- You can remove only widgets that you download and install, not those that come preinstalled with the Mac OS.
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Elizabeth Mott has been a writer since 1983. Mott has extensive experience writing advertising copy for everything from kitchen appliances and financial services to education and tourism. She holds a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in English from Indiana State University.
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