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Changing the Finder window toolbar
To set up the toolbar the way you want it, choose Customize Toolbar from the View menu.
Here are some other things you can do to customize the toolbar:
m To add a disk, server, or folder to the toolbar, drag its icon from a Finder window or desktop to
the toolbar.
m Drag items in the toolbar to arrange them.
m To remove an icon, press the Apple key and drag it from the toolbar.
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These buttons open folders
in your home.
Drag this to the toolbar to use
the default toolbar again.
Click this when you’re finished.
Choose how to display
the toolbar here.
For the experienced
Mac OS user
What’s the Finder toolbar for?
Put folders, servers, and disks that you want to
open frequently in the Finder toolbar.
Changing appearance settings
To change the colors used by Mac OS X and the
highlight color, open the General preferences pane.
Changing the size of icons
To change the size of icons in icon view, open the
View Options window and drag the slider.
Mac OS X tips
Changing global view options
By default, Finder windows use global view
options. To change these, choose Show View
Options and click Global.
Changing view options for a window
If you want to set view options for a window that
are different from the global view options, choose
Show View Options, click WIndow, and uncheck
Use Global View Preferences.
Seeing the path to a folder
Add the Path pop-up menu to the toolbar to see
the folders that contain the current folder. You can
also press the Apple key and click the name of the
folder in the window title bar.
Seeing a folder’s status
To see the number of items in a folder and your
privileges to change the folder, choose Show
Status Bar from the View menu.
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