Organizing your files, Chapter 9, Straightening up your files – Apple Macintosh PowerBook 145B User Manual

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Organizing Your Files

In this chapter

Straightening up your files

Using folders to organize your files

Filing documents when you save them

Making items easier to find

Finding an item

Creating a template or stationery

Getting information about your files

Assigning a label to a file

Tips on transferring files

Straightening up your files

To accomplish this . . .

Do this . . .

Straighten up all icons in

Choose the Clean Up command

the active window

from the Special menu

Straighten up selected

Hold down the Shift key

icons only

while choosing Clean Up

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

while choosing Clean Up

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

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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