Название: macOS Sierra For Dummies
Автор: Bob LeVitus
Издательство: John Wiley & Sons Limited
Жанр: Зарубежная образовательная литература
isbn: 9781119280675
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I couldn’t find a dialog or window that included all of the aforementioned dealie-boppers as well as the one other dealie-bopper you should become familiar with, the disclosure triangle. If you see a triangle in a dialog box or sheet, try clicking it. If it’s a disclosure triangle, it will reveal additional options (or its contents if it’s a folder in the Finder’s List view, as you’ll see in Chapter 6).
Working with Windows
In the following sections, I give you a closer look at windows themselves: how you move them, size them, and use them. And although Sierra windows are similar to windows you’ve used in other versions of Mac OS (and even, dare I say it, Windows), you may just discover a new wrinkle or two.
To start peering into windows on your Mac, first you need to know how to open and close them. When you’re working in the Finder, you can choose the following commands from the File menu. Note that you’ll probably find similar commands on the File menu of programs other than the Finder.
❯❯ New Finder Window (
❯❯ Open (
❯❯ Close Window (
If you want to see more (or less) of what’s in a window, just hover the pointer over any edge or corner and drag. When the cursor turns into a little double-headed arrow, as shown in Figure 2-5, click and drag to resize the window.
FIGURE 2-5: Hover the pointer over any corner or edge; when the double-headed arrow (resizer) cursor appears, click and drag to resize the window.
When you see this cursor, you can click and drag anywhere in the dividing line that separates the Sidebar from the rest of the window. Doing so resizes the two panes relative to each other; one gets larger and one gets smaller.
To move a window, click anywhere in a window’s gray title bar or toolbar (except on a button, menu, or search field) and drag the window to wherever you want it. The window moves wherever you move the mouse, stopping dead in its tracks when you release the mouse button.
I’ve already spent plenty of pages giving you the scoop on how to work with windows. But wait. There’s more! The commands on the Window menu provide tools you can use to manage your windows.
Here is a brief look at each of the items on the Window menu (and if you’re unfamiliar with menus and keyboard shortcuts, I explain how they work later in this chapter):
❯❯ Minimize (
❯❯ Zoom: This command does the same thing as the green gumdrop button. If you’ve forgotten what the green gumdrop does already, just turn back a few pages to the “Top o’ the window to ya!” section and read it again.
❯❯ Cycle through Windows (
The next four commands in the Window menu help you manage Sierra Finder window tabs (which were introduced in OS X 10.9 Mavericks). If you’re a fan of tabbed browsing (à la Safari), you’ll love tabs in a Finder window.
Tabs let you view multiple folders and/or disks in a single window, with each folder or disk in its own tab, as shown in Figure 2-6.