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Chapter 8, Organizing your files 117, Straightening up your files 117 – Apple PowerBook (Duo 270C) User Manual

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Organizing Your Files

In this chapter

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Straightening up your files

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Using folders to organize your files

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Filing documents when you save them

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Making items easier to find

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Finding an item

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Creating a template or stationery

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Getting information about your files

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Assigning a label to a file

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Tips on transferring files

Straightening up your files

To accomplish this . . .

Do this . . .

Straighten up all icons in

Choose the Clean Up Desktop command

the active window

from the Special menu

Straighten up selected

Hold down the Shift key

icons only

while choosing Clean Up Desktop

Arrange icons alphabetically Hold down the Option key
by name, or by the

while choosing Clean Up Desktop

list view displayed most
recently in that window

Line up icons near the right Click the desktop, then hold down the
edge of the desktop

Option key while choosing Clean Up Desktop

You can also have icons arrange themselves in a staggered grid
when you choose Clean Up. See the chapter on adapting your
computer to your own use.

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