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The Finder (Desktop)

finder toolbar image


Minimizing windows:


window buttons Close button: clicking this will close your window or document

Minimize button: clicking this will minimize the window or document into the Dock

Zoom button: clicking this will enlarge the window to fill the screen

Customizing the toolbar:


You can customize which icons appear on your window toolbar.

Select "Customize Toolbar" from the View menu and drag an icon to the toolbar to add it. Drag an icon off to remove it.


Changing views:

Finder (desktop) windows can be viewed in three different ways: Icon View, List view and (new to Mac OS X) Column View.

Column View is new to OS X and can make it very easy to browse through folders many layers deep.



icon view  Icon View

icon view


list view  List View

icon list view


column view  Column View

column view