Cards side by side and in windows

Putting two cards next to each other, closing a card, moving one to a window of its own, and keeping an arrangement

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The Mac can show more than one thing at once. Cards sit side by side in the window, and any card can go out to a window of its own. The iPad puts cards side by side too, with its Side by Side row or a keyboard's ⌘, and keeps arrangements the same way; only windows of their own are the Mac's alone. See Finding your way on iPhone and iPad (GS-5).

Side by side

  • ⌘-click a row in the sidebar to put its card beside the one you're looking at. A plain click shows that card alone.
  • Right-click a row for Show Side by Side (or Remove from Side by Side).
  • Clicking a listing on the listings page opens its editor beside the grid, so you can work down a list one listing at a time.

Two listings side by side, or a listing beside the Site card, each keep their own place: publishing one never touches the other.

Closing a card

The ✕ in a card's header closes it. Closing a listing's card never deletes the listing.

A window of its own

  • The ⧉ button in a card's header (Open in New Window), or Open in New Window in a sidebar row's right-click menu, or File → Open in New Window.

The card moves to its own window, which you can place on another screen. What you were typing goes with it. Its sidebar row stays; clicking it brings the window forward.

Keeping an arrangement

When several cards are side by side, File → Keep This Arrangement keeps them as a row at the top of the sidebar. Click the row to put those cards side by side again. Right-click it for Open in New Window or Forget This Arrangement. Forgetting an arrangement deletes nothing; the cards are only taken off the row.

What stays where

The cards you had open, and your kept arrangements, are remembered on this Mac between launches.

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