Mac OS 9: Visual QuickStart Guide

Icons

Mac OS uses icons to graphically represent files and other items on the Desktop or within Finder windows:

• Applications (Figure 19) are programs you use to get work done. I tell you more about working with applications in Chapters 5 through 7.

  Figure 19. Application icons.

  

• Documents (Figure 20) are the files created by applications. I tell you more about working with documents in Chapter 5.

  Figure 20. Document icons, including two different SimpleText documents and a PageMaker document.

  

• Folders (Figure 21) are used to organize files. I tell you ...