Name - Pat Fauquet
Location - Fairfax Station VA
I work with Bob LeVitus in his Dr. Mac consulting business. I am an active member of the Macintosh user group community. I have been solving Mac problems and teaching Mac users for over 20 years.
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This blog is written for the beginning to intermediate Macintosh user. While there are many technical information sites, my purpose is to write clear solutions to common Macintosh problems with lots of illustrations to make it easy to follow along.
In my work as a consultant, I must keep my computer up-to-date, so illustrations and directions will be made from the latest version of the Mac OS X operating system.
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Labels and how they work
Back in the days of Mac OS 9, there was a feature that allowed the user to add a color label to icons of folders, documents, and even applications. While they make your screen more colorful, they can also be very useful in making items stand out. While this feature was missing in the earliest versions of Mac OS X, it was eventually re-introduced.
Back in the days of Mac OS 9, there was a feature that allowed the user to add a color label to icons of folders, documents, and even applications. While they make your screen more colorful, they can also be very useful in making items stand out. While this feature was missing in the earliest versions of Mac OS X, it was eventually re-introduced.
Just how did I add Color
Labels? Just like everything on the Mac, there are
always several methods to accomplish a task. The
first method is to select an item, then go to the
File menu and choose "Color Label:" at the bottom of
the menu.
Another way to to select
the item, then select the gear near the top of the
Finder window.
Still another way to add
a color label is to select the item, then use the
Control key to cause a pop-up contextual menu to
appear.
Now that we have some
Color Labels, what else can we do with them?
If you are viewing a window in the List mode, it is
possible to view the name of each label.
To do that, make sure you
are in a list view of the window, then go to the View
menu and select "Show View Options" or press
Command-J.
You will then see a small
dialog box that allows you to set options for just
this window or for all windows. Check the Label box.
Yes, I know, having the color's name in the list view
is not very useful, but we can fix that. Make sure
you are in the Finder (click on the desktop). Go to
Finder and choose "Preferences."
In the dialog box, choose
the Labels tab and enter whatever name you would
like.
Now, the information in
the list view is a bit more useful.
It can also be used to do
a "Find." To get to this feature, click on the
desktop to make sure the finder is active, then go to
the File menu. Choose Find -- or just press
Command-F.
In the window that opens,
click and hold on the "Kind" button and you will see
a pop-up. Choose "Color Label." It is interesting
that there is no way to choose by the label name if
you assigned one in the Finder Preferences window.
However, if you chose a color to label items that
needed to be backed up or copied to a separate
location, being able to find items based on a label
color can be very helpful.
In the next entry in this series, I will focus on how
to change the picture on an icon. Once again, if you
need help learning more about your Macintosh and how
to use it, please consider our tutorials,
troubleshooting, and technical advise at Bob LeVitus Consulting.
-- Pat