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Room for everything." width="695" height="27" border="0"></h1> <p class="intro">You do a lot on your Mac. So what happens when projects pile up? Easy. Use Spaces to group your windows and banish clutter completely. Leopard gives you a Space for everything and puts everything in its Space.</p> <div class="grid2col"> <div class="column first"> <h3>Rearrange the rooms.</h3> <p>Create a Space for work. Create a Space for play. Organize each Space the way you want it just by dragging in windows. Keep all your work projects in one Space and that fun flick you made in iMovie in another. Create a communication Space for iChat and Mail. You can even rearrange your Spaces with drag-and-drop ease — shift a Space and every window in it comes along for the ride.</p> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20070710195557im_/http://images.apple.com/macosx/leopard/features/images/spaces_navigation20070611.gif" alt="Spaces Navigation" width="145" height="66" border="0" class="left shadow"> <h3>Make yourself at home.</h3> <p>Moving from Space to Space is easy. Get a bird’s-eye view and select the Space you want or toggle between Spaces using the arrow keys. Even the Dock is down with Spaces: When you click a Dock icon, Leopard whisks you to the Space (or Spaces) where you have that application open.</p> </div> <div class="column last"> <div class="galleryitem demo"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070710195557/http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/apple/mac/macosx/2007/wwdc/apple-leopard-spaces_iref.mov" target="spaces"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20070710195557im_/http://images.apple.com/macosx/leopard/features/images/spaces_demo20070611.jpg" alt="Watch the Demo. See Spaces in action." width="340" height="100" border="0"></a> <span class="posterFrame">src="http://images.apple.com/macosx/leopard/features/images/leopardfeature_poster_spaces_20070627.jpg"</span> <div class="description"> <h3><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20070710195557im_/http://images.apple.com/macosx/leopard/features/images/spaces_popup_title20070611.gif" alt="Spaces. Divide and conquer your desktop." width="234" height="76" border="0"></h3> <p>You do a lot on your Mac. So what happens when projects pile up? Easy. Use Spaces to group your windows and banish clutter completely. Leopard gives you a Space for everything and puts everything in its Space.</p> </div> </div> <h3>Pick your patterns.</h3> <p>Configure your Spaces by visiting the Exposé & Spaces pane in System Preferences. Add rows and columns until you have all the real estate you need. Arrange your Spaces as you see fit, then choose the function keys you want to control them. 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