The Four Window Views You can view the files and folders in a desktop window in any of four ways: as icons; as a single, tidy list; in a series of neat columns; or—new in Leopard—as gian
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You can view the files and folders in a desktop window in any of four ways: as icons; as
a single, tidy list; in a series of neat columns; or—new in Leopard—as giant document icons that you flip through like they're CDs in a record-store bin (called Cover Flow view) Figure 1-12 shows the four different views
Every window remembers its view settings independently You might prefer to look over your Applications folder in list view (because it's crammed with files and folders), but you may prefer to view the Pictures folder in icon or Cover Flow view, where the larger icons serve as previews of the photos
Figure 1-12 From the top: The same window in icon view, list view, column, and Cover Flow views Very full folders are best navigated in list or column views, but you may prefer to view emptier folders in icon or Cover Flow views, because larger
icons are easier to preview and click
Remember that in any view (icon, list, column, or Cover Flow), you can highlight an icon by typing the first few letters of its name In icon, list, or Cover Flow view, you can also press Tab to highlight the next icon (in alphabetical order), or Shift-Tab to
highlight the previous one
To switch a window from one view to another, just click one of the four corresponding icons in the window's toolbar, as shown in Figure 1-12
You can also switch views by choosing View as Icons (or View as Columns, or View as List, or View as Cover Flow), which can be handy if you've hidden the toolbar Or, for less mousing and more hardbodied efficiency, press 1, 2,
-3, or -4 for icon, list, column, or Cover Flow view, respectively
The following pages cover each of these views in greater detail
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Options palette, which lets you set up the sorting, text size, icon size, and other features
of each view, either one window at a time or for all windows
Apple gives you a million different ways to open View Options You can choose View Show View Options, or press -J, or choose Show View Options from the
menu at the top of every window