If you have ever encountered a window on your Mac that is too large to be adjusted manually, or opens mostly outside the screen, making it impossible to use, there are several tricks you can try to resize or move the window back to the primary screen in Mac OS X. These tips work on all versions and on all Apple devices that run on Mac OS or iOS.
Resize off-screen Windows in Mac OS X
If you encounter this issue, here are three different tricks to try and bring the off-screen window back:
- Click the green button in the title bar of the window to resize the window to the available screen resolution.
- Go to the Window menu and drag down to ‘Zoom’, if you can’t reach the green size button since it is not in the box. This will automatically resize the active window to fit the screen.
- Grab any part of the window and hold down OPTION + SHIFT and drag, which resizes the window in any direction.
You can also change the screen resolution to lower than normal because it resizes the screen windows to match the resolution of the new screen.
Please note that the Window menu is available in virtually all Mac OS X applications and can be used to resize and zoom windows according to the resolution available.
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