Heres our guide to closing, maximising and minimising apps and windows in OS X.

The desktop and windows metaphor forms the bulk of your interaction with a Mac, after all.

Some apps (like iTunes) only have one window; others have a window for each document that you have.

If the app already has a window open, it will switch to the window instead.

If you look at the Dock, you will still see a small dot underneath the app icon to indicate that its still open.

If you want to quit the app, you will need to choose the apps name in the Menu bar and Quit (or press Command-Q).

One way that you can manage windows is to minimise the ones that you arent currently using.

Minimise shrinks the window down to the right-hand side of the Dock at the bottom of the screen.

They quickly enable you to get rid of windows that you dont want right now, but will want to use later.

And from Yosemite onwards, zoom has been put on the back-burner in favour of Full Screen.

The green button used to be zoom in OS X, and you can still access zoom by holding down Option and clicking the green button.

On Windows, it automatically fills the whole display, while Zoom on a Mac takes the window to its optimal largest size.

So it may not fill the whole screen, but will rather take up as much space as it should.

The corners enable you to shrink (or grow) each window to any size you want, and then you can use Window Zoom to return to the optimal size.

Scroll through until you find the app you want to force quit, and simply swipe it away by flicking upwards - you can close as many as you want.

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