I have a couple of suggestions for you to try to see what works for you.
First, if you look at the Dock (the row of icons on the bottom), you can see a dot under open applications. In the screen shot you supplied, there is one under the Safari icon. If you click and hold down or right click on the icon, you should get a menu, and one option is to Show All Windows. It will show you all the windows for that application.
Also, if you click the Mission control icon (the third icon on your Dock), it will display your different windows. I think the F3 button activates this as well, and you can setup trackpad gestures to enable a gesture for this (Pinch your thumb and three fingers together to see all the apps on your Mac).
Press and hold the ⌥ Option button on your keyboard. Without closing the File menu, press the Option button to see more menu options. Some of the options in the drop-down menu will change. On some keyboards, you will have Alt instead of Option. On your Mac, do any of the following: Close a single window: In a window, click the red Close button in the top-left corner of the window, or press Command-W. Close all open windows for an app: Press Option-Command-W. Closing one or all windows for an app does not close or quit the app.
Since you are new to the Mac world, you might want to take a look at these links to get more comfortable:
I also found a link with some information on changing the location of where screenshots are saved:
I hope that helps, and I hope you love your MacBook Pro as much as I love mine!
Aug 17, 2013 2:47 PM
It may not be often that you find your Mac with many open Finder windows or multiple windows of Safari or any other app. But when you do and you want to close them all at once, you have two options.
The first is the Command + Option + W. The second one involves mouse clicks. If you're not the three-key-shortcut type, you'll want to check out how to close all windows of a Mac app (including Finder) with this keystroke + click.
How to Close all Windows in Mac App with Keystroke+Click
Note that this method works for all Finder Windows or multiple instances/windows of other apps (including browsers etc).
#1. With the app/Finder open, click on File from the top menu.
#2. Now, press the Option/Alt key on your Mac keyboard.
#3. You should notice that the Close option changes to Close All.
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#4. Click on Close All and all the windows will be quit/closed.
That's it. Being a keyboard-shortcuts guy, I've wondered if this one helps. But I realize, of late, that this tip will be helpful for those working their mice a lot (I'm thinking digital artists).
There is one interesting exception to this though. While in Finder, or Chrome the default option is Close and the Close All (or Close All Windows) option shows only when you press Alt/Option. But in Safari, when you have multiple windows/instances open, you will notice that Close All Windows shows up even without pressing the Alt/Option key.
You should remember that this method will close windows, which means all unsaved work will be lost. For instance, if you've got multiple websites open in different windows of Chrome, closing all windows will lose all the open data. By default, browsers only ask you when you try to close multiple tabs so even this feature won't save data.
The method didn't work for apps like Microsoft Word in Yosemite so the implementation seems to be specific to some apps.
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