Views
A Finder window's contents can be displayed using three different views:
- Icons displays the window's contents as small or large icons (Figure 11 ).
Figure 11. You can display a window's contents as icons,...
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Figure 12. …as a list,…
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Figure 13. … or as columns.
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To change a window's view
1. | If necessary, activate the window whose view you want to change. |
2. | Choose the view option you want from the View menu (Figure 14 ) or press the corresponding shortcut key.Figure 14. The View menu offers a variety of options for changing a window's view, along with three new command key equivalents for switching from one view to another.Figure 15. The view buttons in the toolbar. |
The view of the window changes. Tips
- Commands on the View menu (Figure 14 ) work on the active window only.A check mark appears on the View menu beside the name of the view applied to the active window (Figure 14 ).You can set the view for each window individually.
To neatly arrange icons in icon view
1. | Activate the window that you want to clean up (Figure 16 ).Figure 16. Start with a messy window like this one… |
2. | Choose View > Clean Up (Figure 14 ). The icons are arranged in the window's invisible grid (Figure 17 ).Figure 17. ...and use the Clean Up command to put the icons in place.
Figure 18. The Arrange by submenu offers several options for neatly arranging icons. |
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To sort a window's contents in list view
Click the column heading for the column you want to sort by. The list is sorted by that column (Figure 19 ).
Figure 19. Click a column heading to sort by that column.
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- You can identify the column by which a list is sorted by its colored column heading (Figures 12 ,19 , and 20 ).
Figure 20. Click the same column heading to reverse that column's sort order.
Chapter 4 .You can specify which columns should appear in a window by setting View Options. I explain how to do that in Chapter 4 , too.