- 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 
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You can identify the column by which a list is sorted by its colored column heading 
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You can reverse a window’s sort order by clicking the sort column’s heading a second time 
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You can determine the sort direction by looking at the arrow in the sort column. When it points up, the items are sorted in ascending order 
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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
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- Click the folder once to select it, and press Command-Right Arrow.
The items within that folder are listed below it, slightly indented
.- Click the right-pointing disclosure triangle beside the folder
To hide a folder’s contents, use one of the following techniques:
- Click the down-pointing disclosure triangle beside the folder
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- Click the folder once to select it, and press Command-Left Arrow.
The outline collapses to hide the items in the folder
.- Click the down-pointing disclosure triangle beside the folder
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You can use this technique to display multiple levels of folders in the same window 
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To select multiple contiguous icons in list view
Use one of the following techniques:
- Position the pointer in front of the first icon and drag over the other icons you want to select
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- Click to select the first icon
, hold down the Shift key, and click the last icon in the group you want to select 
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To select multiple noncontiguous icons in list view
- Click to select an icon
. - Hold down the Command key and click another icon.
The icon is also selected
. - Repeat step 2 until all icons have been selected.
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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.
The pointer turns into a vertical bar with two arrows
. - Press the button down and drag:
- To make the column narrower, drag to the left
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- To make the column wider, drag to the right.
- To make the column narrower, drag to the left
- When the column is displayed at the desired width, release the button.
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If you make a column too narrow to display all of its contents, information may be truncated or condensed 
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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
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- To move the column to the right, drag to the right.
As you drag, the pointer turns into a grasping hand and the other columns shift to make room for the column you’re dragging
. - To move the column to the left, drag to the left
- When the column is in the desired position, release the button.
The column changes its position
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