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Using Column View

The Column View is a new thing on Macintoshes. At first, it can be quite confusing and frustrating to work with, so walk yourself through these two pages to get the gist of how it works, and then you’ll simply have to use it enough until it begins to make sense. It’s important to understand the Column View concept because every time you save a document or have to “navigate” or “browse” through your computer to open a file, you’ll bump into this Column View. It’s really quite handy.

This is the Computer level of your Mac, shown in Column View. Notice each of the icons on the far left, on the Computer level, show a triangle ...