Quitting an Application
When you're finished using an application, you should properly quit it. This completely clears the application out of RAM, freeing up RAM for other applications you may want to launch.
Tip
Closing all of an application's open windows is not the same as quitting. An application is still running—and still taking up RAM—until you quit it.
To quit an application
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If necessary, activate the application that you want to quit.
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Choose File > Quit (figures 23a, 23b, and 23c), or press  .
Figure 23. The Quit command is always under the File menu. Here are three examples: SimpleText (top-left), Disk First Aid (bottom-left), ... |
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