Views

Every Finder window's contents can be viewed a variety of ways:

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

    Figure 1. You can display a window's contents as icons…

  • As Buttons displays the window's contents as clickable buttons (Figure 2).

    Figure 2. …as clickable buttons…

  • As List displays the window's contents as a sorted list (Figure 3).

    Figure 3. …or as a list.

In addition to setting a specific view for a Finder ...

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