Cleaning Up & Arranging Icons & Buttons

Even if you're not a neat freak, you'll like the automatic clean-up and arrangement features that are part of the Finder.

  • Clean Up neatly arranges icons or buttons in the window's invisible grid.

  • Arrange lets you specify the order in which icons or buttons should appear in the window.

To clean up a window

1.
Activate the window that you want to clean up (Figure 15).
Figure 15. Start with a messy window like this one…

2.
Choose View > Clean Up (Figure 16). The icons move into empty slots in the window's invisible grid (Figure 17).
Figure 16. …then choose Clean Up from the View menu.
Figure 17. The icons ...

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