Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: Visual QuickStart Guide

Chapter 4. Window Views

Window Views

A Finder window’s contents can be displayed using four different views:

• Icons displays the window’s contents as small or large icons (Figure 1).

  

  Figure 1. Here’s a window in icon view, ...

• List displays the window’s contents as a sorted list (Figure 2).

  

  Figure 2. ...list view, ...

• Columns displays the window’s contents with a multiple-column format that shows the currently selected disk or folder and the items within it (Figure 3).

  Figure 3. ...column view, ...

• Cover Flow, which is new in Mac OS X 10.5, displays a folder’s ...