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Wallace Wang, Mac OS X for Absolute Beginners, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1913-3_11

11. Customizing the Finder Window

Wallace Wang1 

(1)San Diego, California, USA

No matter what you need to do, the program you’ll likely use most often is the Finder. With the Finder, you can find, open, rename, copy, move, and delete files. By customizing the Finder, you can make it easier to use.

The following are some of the ways that you can customize the Finder :

  • Change the sidebar on the left side of the Finder window

  • Change the toolbar at the top of the Finder window

  • Change the behavior of the Finder window

Note

When you customize the way that your Macintosh looks and behaves, it won’t look or behave like any other Macintosh. If you use multiple Macintosh ...

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