About Stacks

Documents Stack

Welcome to Mac OS X Stacks automatically display their contents in a fan or a
Snow Leopard. grid based on the number of items in the stack. You
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and applications right from or you can set the sort order so that the items you care
the Dock. about most always appear at the top of the stack. To
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Stacks are simple to create. Just drag any folder to icon and hold down the mouse button until a menu
the right side of the Dock and it becomes a stack. appears. Choose the settings you want from the menu.
Click a stack and it springs from the Dock in either
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Mac OS X Snow Leopard includes three premade
stacks called Documents, Downloads, and
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stack. The Documents stack is a great place to keep
things like presentations, spreadsheets, and word
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them to the stack from an application.

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