How do I Add a Drawer to a Dock in Leopard?

As you often need to quickly access applications when using your Mac OS X computer, Apple utilizes the dock to streamline your work process. The Dock, first introduced in Mac OS X, received significant updates with the Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard release. Now, you can add folders to the dock that act as drawers. If you click a folder drawer, a stack appears above the dock displaying the contents of your folder drawer. Adding drawers to the dock is a simple process, so you can add other folders alongside the "Applications," and "Downloads" drawers.

Instructions

1. Locate the folder from which you want to make your drawer from. Double-click the "Finder" icon at the far left of the task bar if you do not have a Finder window open.

2. Click and drag the folder name from Finder to the dock at the far right alongside the Applications drawer. You have to drag this from a main Finder window--if you drag it from the sidebar in Finder, then it will remove the same shortcut from there.

3. Click and drag the drawer left or right if you want to rearrange it.

4. Click the drawer for it to open above the dock. You will now be able to quickly access the items in it.

References

• AppleInsider: Road to Mac OS X Leopard: Dock 1.6
• Apple: Mac 101: The Dock