Ah thank you - quitting the app was what I wanted to do and I hadn't come across that keystroke yet, or if I had I'd forgotten :-) I was looking in the file menu thinking something like that would be there, and so confused when the only close things were close window which were greyed out...I'm surprised the command doesn't seem to be in any of the menus...or perhaps I'm missing it...
Catherine On 4/10/13, Sarah k Alawami <[email protected]> wrote: > Just hit cmd q to quit the app all together. The reason the app is still > there is you can still view windows by key strokes or by going to the window > menu. This is the case 99 percent of the time. I do this all the time in > mail. I want my mail running but I don't want to see all of my folders. I > want a blank there. > > Take care. > On Apr 9, 2013, at 11:52 PM, Catherine Turner > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Ah sorry, I still don't understand. If the app has no windows how >> come it's still there? I mean, ok maybe the app is just open but >> nothing happening in it or something, but how can I close the app? >> What if I go into an app and then decide I don't want it running any >> more, don't want it showing in the app chooser? How do I close it? >> It seems strange to me that when I press Cmd W sometimes this closes >> the app and it disappears from application chooser, and other times >> cmd w just seems to do nothing...confused... >> >> Catherine >> >> On 4/9/13, Sarah k Alawami <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Actually it is. The application has no windows when you do cmd w. Often >>> to >>> reshow for lack of a better word a window you can go to the view menu >>> and >>> down arrow to what ever window it is you want to show or memorize the >>> key >>> strokes. >>> >>> Take care. >>> On Apr 9, 2013, at 1:45 AM, Catherine Turner >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I'm wondering why quite often Command W doesn't do anything to close a >>>> window and the close window item in the file menu is dimmed. >>>> Sometimes I open stuff from dock or elsewhere just to see what it is >>>> and then I can't close them. 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