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Double-click

A double-click is a quick click-click on the front end of the mouse, again with the pointer located at the appropriate spot on the screen. A double-click has to be quick and the mouse must be still or the Mac will interpret it as two single clicks. As you work on your Mac, these are the kinds of things you'll do with a double-click:

Double-click an application or document icon to open that application or document (as long as the icon is not in the Dock or Sidebarsingle-click items in the Dock or Sidebar).

Double-click a folder icon (not in the Dock or Sidebar) to open the window for that folder.

Double-click on a word to select that word for editing.

Exercise 1:
A double-click will open icons that are not in your Dock or Sidebar.

Double-click on the icon of your hard disk, in the upper-right corner of your screen. A double-click will "open" the hard disk and show you its window.

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You may notice that the window for your hard disk looks exactly like the window you get when you click on the Finder icon in the Dock! You're rightboth actions open the same window.

Exercise 2:
Double-click to open a folder when a window is in Icon View.