- Window Views
- Working with Icon View
- Working with List View
- Working with Column View
- Working with Cover Flow
- Arranging Window Contents
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Working with List View
List view displays a window’s contents in an ordered list. Items cannot be manually moved around so there’s no need for a Clean Up command.
Windows displayed in list view also have a feature not found in other views: They can display the contents of folders within the window as an outline. This makes it possible to see and select the contents of more than one folder at a time.
To sort a window’s contents:
Click the column heading for the column you want to sort by.
The list is sorted by that column A.
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Figure 8 A Click a column heading to sort by that column.
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Figure 9 B Click the same column heading to reverse that column’s sort order.
To display or hide a folder’s contents in outline list view:
- To display a folder’s contents, use one of the following techniques:
- Click the right-pointing disclosure triangle beside the folder C.
- Click the folder once to select it, and press Command-Right Arrow.
- To hide a folder’s contents, use one of the following techniques:
- Click the down-pointing disclosure triangle beside the folder E.
- Click the folder once to select it, and press Command-Left Arrow.
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Figure 10 C Disclosure triangles that point to the right indicate hidden content.
The items within that folder are listed below it, slightly indented D.
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Figure 11 D A disclosure triangle that points down indicates displayed content. In list view, this displays folder contents as an outline.
The outline collapses to hide the items in the folder D.
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Figure 12 E In list view, you can display multiple levels of folders as an outline.
To select multiple contiguous icons in list view:
Use one of the following techniques:
- Position the pointer in front of the first icon F and drag over the other icons you want to select G.
- Click to select the first icon H, hold down the Shift key, and click the last icon in the group you want to select I.
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Figure 13 F Position the pointer in front of the first icon you want to select.
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Figure 14 G Drag over the other icons you want to select.
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Figure 15 H Select the first icon.
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Figure 16 I Hold down Shift and click on the last icon.
To select multiple noncontiguous icons in list view:
- Click to select an icon H.
- Hold down the Command key and click another icon.
- Repeat step 2 until all icons have been selected K.
The icon is also selected J.
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Figure 17 JK Command-click icons to select them.
To deselect icons:
Click anywhere in the window other than on an icon’s line of information.
To change a column’s width:
- Position the pointer on the line between the heading for the column whose width you want to change and the column to its right.
- Press the button down and drag:
- To make the column narrower, drag to the left M.
- To make the column wider, drag to the right.
- When the column is displayed at the desired width, release the button.
The pointer turns into a vertical bar with two arrows L.
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Figure 18 L Position the pointer on the column border.
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Figure 19 M When you press the button down and drag, the column’s width changes.
To change a column’s position:
- Position the pointer on the heading for the column you want to move.
- Press the button down and drag:
- To move the column to the left, drag to the left N.
- To move the column to the right, drag to the right.
- When the column is in the desired position, release the button.
As you drag, the pointer turns into a grasping hand and the other columns shift to make room for the column you’re dragging N.
The column changes its position O.
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Figure 20 N You can drag a column heading...
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Figure 21 O ...to change the column’s position.