Apple Macintosh LC - Manual (Page 15)

other windows. Sometimes when you think you've lost a window, it has simply
moved behind a larger window that hides it from view.
Changing the size of a window
You may want to make a window as large as the screen so you can work in it
easily, or as small as a matchbox so you can get it out of the way.
Using the System Folder window, experiment with resizing windows in the steps
that follow.
1. Click the zoom box (the box at the upper-right corner of the window).
The window zooms out to nearly fill the screen.
2. Click the zoom box again.
The window returns to its former size.
The zoom box, as its name suggests, provides a fast way to resize a window.
But it doesn't allow you to fine-tune the window's size or shape. The fine-
tuning control is the size box in the lower-right corner of the window.
3. If you can't see the size box right now, move the window (by dragging its
title bar) until it appears.
4. Position the pointer on the size box, press the mouse button, and drag up
and to the left.
As you drag, a dotted outline of the window follows. If you keep pressing the
mouse button and watch the screen as you drag up, down, left, and right, you
can see the outline follow your movements.
5. Release the mouse button.
The window changes size. If you don't like the new size, drag the size box
until you do.
Notice that the contents of a window don't change when you change a window's
size. All that changes is the amount you can see.
Seeing hidden parts of a directory or document
Sometimes there's more in a window than you can see at one time. You just saw
that you can make the window as large as the screen. But sometimes even that
doesn't provide enough room for you to see everything an icon contains.
Imagine that you are taking a snapshot of a sunset at the beach. Because the
scene is so vast (and your camera doesn't have a wide-angle lens), you can
only capture a section of the scene in your lens at any time. But you can pan
the camera to the left or right to bring different parts of the horizon into
view, and you can tilt the camera up or down to bring more of the sky or more
of the ocean into view.
Looking at a Macintosh window is like looking through the camera lens. You
can only see part of the window's contents at one time, but you can pan the
window from side-to-side and up and down to bring different parts of the
contents into view.