For those that are not just using their Mac for surfing the internet, Spaces is a very useful native Apple application that by default is turned off. For that reason lots of users never bother to try it out. Lots of users don’t even know what is all about.

Spaces helps reduce clutter on your desktop by allowing you to group your application windows according to the way you work and easily switch between them.

To enable it do this easy steps:

• From the Apple menu (on the top left ) choose System Preferences
• From the View menu, choose Exposé & Spaces
  
• Select (check) the “Enable Spaces” box
  
• If you want Spaces in the menu bar, select “Show Spaces in menu bar”

N.B: You can also add up to four rows and four columns for your Spaces by clicking the “+” buttons

Arrange the order of your Spaces by clicking and dragging one Space to move it to another Space location.  For example, you can click and drag Space 4 over to where Space 1 is and the content of those Spaces will swap, thereby making what was Space 4 into Space 1 and Space 1 into Space 4.

You can click and drag a window of an application from one Space to another, even if that application has a Space assigned to it.

Tip: Want to drag all windows of an application from one Space to another? Hold Command (⌘) key when you click and drag a window of the application. All windows of that application will move at once.

Let’s look at something else different within Spaces. After you’ve been using it for a while you’ll notice that after opening an application within one of the Spaces and then moving to another desktop, when you click on the the application’s icon in the Dock, Spaces takes you back to the space the application was originally opened in.

You can change that and have the application following you in any desktop you are currently working in (selecting every space) or if you want the application to be in a specific desktop (space).

Select the (add) + under the Application assignments window and browse to the desired application.