Mac for Newbies
Lesson 01
The four Finder views
Icon view looks friendly. Column view knows where everything is.
⌘1⌘2⌘3⌘4
Icon, List, Column, Gallery. Column view is the one worth learning: it shows the whole path across the window as you move deeper, so you always know where you are.
Do this now
Open a Finder window and press Command with 1, then 2, then 3, then 4, pausing on each. Go back to Command-3 and click your way three folders deep.
You will know it worked when
Command-3 is column view. As you go deeper, new columns appear to the right, and you can see the whole path across the window at once.
▶ Nothing happened?
Columns too narrow to read? Drag the small handle at the bottom of any divider, or double-click it to size it to fit.