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macOS Catalina For Dummies
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macOS Catalina For Dummies

by Bob LeVitus
November 2019
Beginner
528 pages
13h 50m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 5

Delving Even Deeper into Catalina’s Desktop and Finder

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Organizing your desktop with Stacks

Bullet Editing image, video, and audio files without an application

Bullet Automating tasks with Quick Actions

Bullet Making movies of your screen

Bullet Tips, hints, and techniques to help you do more work with less effort

It’s been many years — way back in the days when Apple named its operating systems after jungle cats — since a macOS upgrade included as many improvements to Finder. And, having been around on the Mac in some form since 1984, Finder was surely due for some love.

You’ll love what they’ve done with Finder in Catalina (and before that in Mojave). In this chapter, you discover cool, relatively new features such as Stacks and Quick Actions, as well as major improvements to some of the features you know and love, such as editing features in both Quick Look and the Preview pane.

Finally, I point out a handful of useful interface enhancements that make Catalina’s Finder better than ...

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