Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition

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grouping and sorting the list of found stuff. (Figure 2-23 shows the difference between

grouping and sorting.) Your options are Kind (folders, PDF, images, documents, and

so on); Name (an alphabetical list); date (the date you last opened it, not the date you

last made a change); People (authors of Microsoft Office documents, for example);

and Flat List (no grouping at all.)

See the pretty pictures

When you’ve grouped your results by Kind, the blue divider bars for Images and

PDF Documents offer some useful little buttons at the right end. Figure 2-24 shows

what they do.

Get more info

Click the ˆ button to the right of anything in the list to expand its listing. A sort of

Get Info panel drops down, identifying where the item is on your hard drive and list-

ing its authors, size, creation and modification dates, “last opened” date, dimensions

(for graphics and PDF documents), duration (for music and movies), sender (for

mail messages), date (for iCal appointments), and so on.

Filter the list

Filtering, in this case, means winnowing down—hiding some of the results so that

you see only the good stuff. That’s the purpose of the “When” and “Where” controls

on the right side of the screen.

Figure 2-23:

You can sort the master list

by group, which is indicat-

ed by the blue horizontal

dividers. Then within each

group, you can sort by

another criterion. ...