The Toolbar

The toolbar (Figure 52) offers navigation tools and view buttons within Finder windows:

The Back button displays the previous window's contents.
The Forward button displays the window that was showing before you clicked the Back button.
View buttons enable you to change the window's view.
The Action pop-up menu (Figure 53) offers commands for working with an open window or selected object(s) within the window.
Figure 53. The Action pop-up menu offers commands for working with selected items in a window.
Search box enables you to quickly search the window for a file by name.

Tips

The toolbar can be customized to show the items you use most; Chapter 4 explains how.
Does the Action pop-up menu in Figure 53 look familiar? It should! It's very similar to the contextual menu shown in Figure 17.
Views are covered in Chapter 4, using the Search box is covered in Chapter 5, and file management and navigation are discussed in Chapter 3.
If the window is not wide enough to show all toolbar buttons, a double arrow appears on the right side of the toolbar (Figure 54). Click the arrow to display a menu of missing buttons (Figure 55), and select the button you want.
Figure 54. When the window is narrow, some toolbar items may be hidden.

Figure 55. Click the double arrow to display a menu of hidden items.

Click the toolbar control button (Figure 56).

One of two things happens:

If the toolbar is displayed, it disappears (Figure 56).
If the toolbar is not displayed, it appears (Figure 57).
Figure 57. …or display it.

Tip

As shown in Figure 56, hiding the toolbar also hides the Sidebar (which is discussed on the next page) and window borders and moves the status bar so it appears right beneath the title bar. This makes the window smaller and more like the windows in Mac OS 9 and earlier.

Click the button once.

1.	If necessary, select the icon(s) for the items you want to work with.
2.	Click the Action pop-up menu to display a menu of commands (Figure 53).
3.	Choose the command you want to use.