

And you can just as quickly make it go away. This will be as close as you can get to bringing up the menu bar with a single press as I can imagine. The only thing I can suggest to you (just figured this out now) is to try to replicate some of the stuff from your menu bar onto the dashboard and then have a hot key for the dashboard. I hate that you can't have full screen and still see the menu. If you change a setting or display a toolbar while using Word, that setting or toolbar will be visible when composing new email too. Even when you go to Mission Control only one screen appears, that of the desktop. Using Word as your Editor: The toolbars shown when you compose a new message using Microsoft Word as the editor are stored in Words normal.dot template. I've lost pages that way when I have more than one screen from the same program open (like two spreadsheets, pdfs, or Word documents).

You have to minimize one to find the other one beneath it, then bring it back up using the dock. If the apps are not in TRUE full screen, then they appear as part of the desktop screen and you can't toggle between them. I like to toggle between screens using a four finger swiping motion on the magic trackpad (the way you do on an Ipad), or alternately, press command ⌘+TAB. When you resize a window it takes over the desktop rather than becoming a separate pane. The problem with the suggestions people are offering is that they are NOT full screen mode.
