Sunday, February 9, 2014

MAC TIP #17: How to move program toolbars to the top of a second monitor

OK, so if you use a laptop and plugin a second monitor as your main monitor, what you really want is the program toolbars (or menu bar) at the top of the larger montior, not on the laptop monitor.

So how do you do that?

Simple... just go into "System Preferences" and select "Displays".


OR, if you have "Show displays in menu bar" already turned on, you can access this option from the top tool bar and go to "Display Preferences". (Highly recommended).



 Once in "Displays" menu, now select the "Arrangement" tab.


This is where you set whether your monitor is on the left or right of laptop and if it's higher or lower. But you can also move the menu bar. Simply drag the white menu bar to the larger second monitor. (cursor added)



The monitor screens will then refresh and then you will note all program tool bars now on your larger monitor! Browser, Photoshop etc.

Happy days.  :-)