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• #LAUNCHPAD MANAGER EL CAPITAN WINDOWS#

That’s all there is to it! As you might guess, you can use the same technique to open documents or even System Preferences panes.Ĭleverly, Spotlight is adaptive so if the first time you type “ac” it suggests Adobe Content Viewer, once you select Activity Monitor instead, it will know that “ac” should open Activity Monitor in the future. If it’s not the top hit, you can either continue typing to narrow the search or arrow down to it in the list, and then press Return. If the app you want to launch is highlighted as the top hit, press Return to launch it.Spotlight searches, and while it should be nearly instantaneous, if it doesn’t show the app you want at first, give it a few seconds.

And if an app name is a single InterCapped word, it’s fine to enter just the capitalized letters, as in “ft” for FaceTime. For apps whose names have multiple words, you can type the first letter of each, as in “ic” for Image Capture. Begin typing an app’s name, such as “ac” for Activity Monitor.Press Command-Space to display the Spotlight window.But what you may not realize is that among the files that Spotlight can find are all the apps on your Mac, and you can launch them with just a few keys. You’re probably familiar with Spotlight as a search tool, both for finding files and folders on your Mac, and for ferreting out information on the Internet (in OS X 10.11 El Capitan, Spotlight can even find weather forecasts, sports scores, and stock prices).

#LAUNCHPAD MANAGER EL CAPITAN WINDOWS#

You can even add commonly used apps to the toolbar of Finder windows by Command-dragging them up there.īut what if you don’t want to take your hands off the keyboard? Is there any way to open an app without touching the mouse or trackpad? Indeed there is, courtesy of Spotlight. You can double-click an app in the Applications folder, click an app icon in the Dock, invoke Launchpad and click the desired app, or choose an app from the Apple menu’s Recent Items > Applications submenu. There are oodles of ways to launch apps in OS X.