Easy Mac OS X Lion - Kate Binder [10]
If you’re using single-window mode, choose View, Hide Toolbar to switch to multi-window mode.
Double-click a folder in the window to open a new window showing its contents.
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Tip: Quick Switch
Even without the single-window mode toolbar, you can switch quickly from one window view to another. Click in a window and press for icon view, for list view, for column view, and for Cover Flow view.
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Using the Toolbar
In single-window mode, each window contains a toolbar that provides shortcuts to common tasks in the Finder, such as switching folder views and searching for files. After you get to know the toolbar, it quickly becomes your best friend. You can even customize it with your favorite buttons, too—see the next task.
Click the Back and Forward buttons to see the contents of folders you’ve looked at before in this window.
Click the Icon View, List View, Column View, or Cover Flow button to change your folder view.
Choose an option from the Action menu to perform one of several common tasks.
Type in the Search field to search for files and folders by name.
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Note: Where to Look
The toolbar’s Search field automatically starts out by searching your entire system. But as soon as the search begins, a toolbar pops up, giving you a choice of other locations. If you can narrow down the search location, the search will go faster.
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Tip: Action Figures
The commands available in the Action menu vary depending on what’s selected. For example, if you click a disk icon, the Action menu adds an Eject command. Be sure to explore your Action menu options.
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Customizing the Toolbar
Because the toolbar is intended to make life easier for you, the individual Mac user, you can choose the buttons you want to display in the toolbar. You can also change the appearance and contents of the icons in the sidebar that’s visible whenever the toolbar is visible; see “Accessing Your Favorite Files and Places” later in this part.
Choose View, Customize Toolbar.
Drag buttons onto the toolbar to add them.
Choose an option from the Show pop-up menu.
Click Done.
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Tip: Back Where You Started
When you’re customizing your toolbar, you can restore the default set of buttons by dragging the whole set from the bottom of the Customize dialog box up to the toolbar.
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Tip: Cutting Back
To remove buttons from the toolbar, choose View, Customize Toolbar and drag the buttons you don’t want off the toolbar.
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Using Different Folder Views
You can view Finder windows in four ways. Icon view is convenient when a folder contains just a few files and you want to be able to tell them apart quickly. List view enables you to sort the contents of a window, and column view provides a quick way of burrowing down into a series of nested folders. The glamorous Cover Flow view speaks for itself.
To switch to icon view, choose View, As Icons.
If the icons are stacked on top of each other, choose View, Clean Up By to space them out so you can see them all.
To switch to column view, choose View, As Columns.
Drag the bar between two columns to adjust the columns’ width.
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Tip: Wide Angle View
To adjust column widths in column view, drag the small double line at the bottom of the column divider. It’s only visible if the column contains a list of files and folders; you can’t adjust empty columns.
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Tip: Getting There Via Buttons
In single-window mode, you can click the buttons in the upper-left corner of the window to switch window views. Turn to the task “Using Single-Window Mode,” earlier in this part, to learn more about using single-window mode.
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To switch to list view, choose View, As List.
Drag the right edge of a list column header to change that column’s width, or drag a column header to a different position to change the order of the columns.
To switch