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Quit applications

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Quit applications

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- [Instructor] I'm starting this video with lots of applications running because I want to talk about how to quit applications. First, you know an application is running when you see the little black dot under the icon in the dock. Usually, there will be a window on the screen as well, but you can't always depend on that. Also, it's important to know that only one application can be active at a time. That's the application which has its menus up here at the top of the screen. So I know that Dictionary is the active application because this first menu is labeled Dictionary. Also, the Dictionary window is on top of all the others. Okay, let's click on the Calculator window. I can see it right here, and when I click on it, it moves to the top of the stack, and I can see its menus are now visible up at the top. So now I know that application is active. All right. Let's quit the Calculator application. And your first…

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