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Changing the way the contents of windows appear – Apple Macintosh PowerBook 145 User Manual

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Changing the way the contents
of windows appear

You can change the way the contents of Finder windows are
displayed, and you can change the items in the View menu. You
make these changes in the Views control panel. Choose Control
Panels from the Apple (K) menu and open the Views control
panel.

Use the Views control panel to change

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the font and font size used in all views (press to open the
pop-up menu, then drag to choose a font or a size)

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the arrangement of icons or small icons

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the size of icons used in list views

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what information is included in list views, including folder
sizes and the amount of available space on disk

See the summary and shortcuts section near the end of this book
for more information about using windows and list views.

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Option to snap icons
to an invisible grid
whenever they are
moved

Pop-up menu of fonts for icon
names and list views

Options for clean-up
of icons

Options for the size
of icons displayed in
list views

Pop-up menu of font
sizes for icon names
and list views

Options for information
displayed in list views

Checked items
appear in the
View menu.