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If you are one of those peoples who store lots of data on your Mac device, then the Stacks feature is meant for you. The Mac’s desktop on a regular basis collects the files and folders at a huge rate, which will result in an unorganised desktop. With macOS Stacks feature you can very well organize your desktop, remove unnecessary items and improve your daily work. – PowerPoint PPT presentation

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Title: How to Set up Your Desktop with macOS Stacks Feature


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How to Set up Your Desktop with macOS Stacks
Feature
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Your Desktop with macOS Stacks Feature
  • If you are one of those peoples who store lots of
    data on your Mac device, then the Stacks feature
    is meant for you. The Macs desktop on a regular
    basis collects the files and folders at a huge
    rate, which will result in an unorganised
    desktop. With macOS Stacks feature you can very
    well organize your desktop, remove unnecessary
    items and improve your daily work.

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Lets us Talk About Desktop Stacks
  • Desktop Stacks feature allow you to arrange your
    desktop properly you can select to have a group
    of items in the Dock come as a Folder or as a
    Stack. You can make Stacks containing new
    applications, documents, pictures its just
    about which way you want it. Rounding up all the
    unnecessary items on your desktop and putting
    them into various Stacks which includes the
    related files.
  • Stacks are a convenient feature thats quick to
    implement. You can also go back to your
    unnecessary items if you like.

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Heres how to enable or disable Stacks on your
desktop
  • Press once on the desktop to choose it and bring
    it to the front of the desktop.
  • Click View, Use Stacks from the menu list.
  • A check-mark will be inserted to the Use Stacks
    menu item so that it can indicate that Stacks are
    enabled.
  • You can go through the same steps by
    right-clicking on the desktop and choosing Use
    Stacks from the menu list.
  • You can disable Stacks by choosing the Use Stacks
    menu item, and you will see a result that
    check-mark being deleted and all the files in the
    Stacks being come back to the desktop.
  • If you enable Stacks, all the files will get
    stored to various Stacks. All the pictures files
    get organised in one Stack, movies files goes to
    another stack, PDFs files in a third Stacks, and
    spreadsheets go in a fourth Stacks. This is a
    method to set up as default, but you can select
    various sorting methods.

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Setting up Stack Grouping
  • Stacks itself sort themselves by the kind of
    files they included. But there are also other
    grouping options. Make sure that Stacks are
    enabled if you want to change how Stacks are
    sorted then
  • Make sure the desktop should be the first most
    items, after that press on the desktop once.
  • Choose Group Stacks from the View option.
  • The menu list appears to show you the various
    options
  • Kind
  • Date Last Opened
  • Date Added
  • Date Modified
  • Date Created
  • Tags
  • Choose the way you like to organise the Stacks.
  • You can also perform the same given steps as
    above by right-clicking on the desktop and after
    that selecting Group Stacks by.
  • After you create your selection of the Stacks on
    the desktop will get reversed by the grouping
    method you chosen.

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How to Use a Stack?
  • You have to first activate the tool first, before
    starting with macOS Stacks. Stacks are placed at
    the right corner of the desktop and come as a
    group of file symbol stack from one top to
    another.
  • Go through the steps to know how to use a Stack
  • Choose View and then open Use Stacks from the
    Finder menu in a desktop,
  • After that, your desktop files get organised into
    each Stack.
  • Tap on the Stack option to view the contents
    inside.
  • You also can unselect Use Stacks from the same
    Finder View menu.

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THANKS FOR WATCHING
  • John Martin is a Microsoft Office expert and has
    been working in the technical industry since
    2002. As a technical expert, Samuel has written
    technical blogs, manuals, white papers, and
    reviews for many websites such as office.com/setup
    .
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    etup 
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