or just click the yellow minimize button in the top left of an open window. When you do, an oh-so-pretty animation will scale the active window down into the Dock. When you need to use it again ...

you don’t have to travel over to its yellow minimize button or let go of your mouse to use the Command-M shortcut. You have another option: Go to the Dock pane of System Preferences and check ...

To minimize your open window, click the Minimize button, which looks like a dash (-) at the top right side of the application's window. To restore it to the screen, click the application's icon on ...