macOS Monterey For Dummies. Bob LeVitus

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       Close, Minimize, and Zoom buttons: Shut ’em, shrink ’em, and grow ’em.

       View icons: Choose among four exciting views of your window: Icon, List, Column, and Gallery. Find out more about views in Chapter 4.

       Group By menu: Click this little doohickey to group this window’s icons by Name, Kind, Application, Date Modified, Date Created, Date Last Opened, Date Added, Size, or Tags. Or, of course, by None, which is the default.

       Action menu: This icon is really a pop-up menu of commands you can apply to currently selected items in the Finder window or on the desktop. It’s nearly the same list of commands you’ll find in the contextual (shortcut) menu when you right-click or Control-click that item or items. Note that some menu icons and items in these menus aren’t available (appear dimmed) until you select one or more icons in the Finder window. If nothing happens when you click a toolbar icon, click a file or folder icon to select it and try again.

       Window title: Shows the name of the window (bob in Figure 2-1). ⌘ -click (or Control-click) the window title to see a pop-up menu with the complete path to this folder. (Try it now.) This tip applies to most windows you’ll encounter, not just Finder windows. So ⌘ - or Control-click a window’s title (a right-click or two-fingered tap on a trackpad will work, too), and you’ll (usually) see the path to its enclosing folder on your disk, though some third-party apps don’t follow this convention. To see the path from your hard or solid-state drive to the active window, choose View ⇒ Show Path Bar. The path will appear at the bottom of all Finder windows until you choose View ⇒ Hide Path Bar.

       Share menu: Another icon that’s a menu. Click it to share selected files or folders via Mail, Messages, AirDrop, or Notes. Or click More to add other commands to your Share menu, such as Add (the selected item) to Photos or Reminders.

       Tags menu: Yet another menu; click it to assign a tag to the selected files or folders.

       Search: Click the magnifying glass icon and then type a string of characters in the field that appears. Monterey’s Spotlight search feature digs into your system to find items that match by filename or document contents (yes, it will find words within most documents).

       Scroll bars: Use the scroll bars for moving around a window.

       Sidebar: Frequently used items live here.

       Forward and Back icons: These icons take you to the next or previous folder, respectively, displayed in this particular window. The first time you open a window, neither icon is active; in Figure 2-1, only the Back icon is active.As you navigate from folder to folder, these icons remember your breadcrumb trail so you can quickly traverse backward or forward, window by window. You can also navigate backward or forward from the keyboard by using the shortcuts ⌘ +[ for Back and ⌘ +] for Forward. The Forward and Back icons remember only the other folders you’ve visited in that tab. If you’ve set a Finder preference so that folders always open in a new window — or if you forced a folder to open in a new window, which I describe in a bit — the Forward and Back icons won’t work.

       Close (red): Click this button to close the window.

       Minimize (yellow): Click this button to minimize the window. Clicking Minimize appears to close the window, but instead of making it disappear, Minimize adds an icon for the window to the right side of the dock. See the section about minimizing windows into application icons in Chapter 3 if a document icon doesn’t appear in your dock when you minimize the document's window.To view the window again, click the dock icon for the window that you minimized. If the window happens to be a QuickTime movie, the movie audio continues to play and a tiny still image from the video appears as its icon in the dock. (I discuss the dock in detail in Chapter 3.)

       Zoom (green): Click a window’s green Zoom button, and the window expands to cover the whole screen, including the menu bar. If you prefer the old behavior, where a window zoomed to the largest size it could but didn’t cover the full screen, hold down the Option key when you click the green button.To shrink the window back to its previous dimensions, slide the cursor up to the very top of the screen, wait for the menu bar to appear, and then click the green Zoom button.Another way to escape from a full-screen window, at least in Finder, is to press the Esc key on your keyboard. Sadly, this trick doesn’t work with all apps, though it’s quite useful in apps that support it (most Apple apps and many others) as well as in Finder.Split View is semi-hidden beneath the green Zoom button. To see Split View in action, first click the green button for a moment — that is, perform the first half of a click without releasing the button. Or hover the cursor over the Zoom button for a moment (without clicking).Either way, a pop-up menu with three (or more) options appears; select Enter Full Screen, Tile Window to Left of Screen, or Tile Window to Right of Screen. You may see additional options to move the window to a different device (such as an iPad) via Sidecar if a suitable device is close enough to your Mac (see Chapter 27).After assigning a window to the left or right half of the screen, the other half displays miniature versions of all open windows. Hover the cursor over a miniature window to see its name; click a miniature window and it fills that half of the screen.To work in Split View, click either window to activate it and do what you have to do. To activate the other window, click it. To exit Split View, do one of the following:Press Esc.Move the pointer to the top of the screen; when the buttons (for both windows) reappear, click any button.Quit either application.