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Mac OS 9: Visual QuickStart Guide
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Mac OS 9: Visual QuickStart Guide

by Maria Langer
October 1999
Beginner
376 pages
13h 6m
English
Peachpit Press
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Icon Names

Mac OS is very flexible when it comes to names for files, folders, and disks.

  • A file or folder name can be up to 31 characters long. A disk name can be up to 27 characters long.

  • A name can contain any character except a colon (:).

This makes it easy to give your files, folders, and disks names that make sense to you.

Tip

Normally, you name documents when you save them. I tell you how to save documents in Chapter 5.

Tip

No two documents in the same window can have the same name.

Tip

I tell you about disks later in this chapter.

To rename an icon

1.
Point to the name of the icon (Figure 33), and click. After a brief pause, an edit box appears around the name and the name becomes highlighted (Figure 34).
Figure 33. Point to the name ...
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