You can press command 3 to put in column biew. Kawal.
On 15 Jan 2012, at 07:16 PM, Eugenia Firth <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi again Kim. > the thing I had the most trouble with was folder organization. You wouldn't > think so since the Apple 2E was my first computer. However, it took me a > while to finally get it in my brain where things were on my Mac. > > On the Mac, I have been column view instead of list view. In Windows I used > list view. This means that in column view, say, the name of your folder is > usually on the left and then the files under it would be accessed by pressing > the right arrow key. For myself, and I think different people do different > things here, I put the folders I wantyed to work with on the desktop. > > If you want to change to column view and try it, press VO (you know that's > control option) and then press m. Right arrow over to view and down until you > find column view. You should be able to press enter on that. > > Just like in Windows, you have some other choices of how you want things > viewed. I have a reason to have things set up so that I see the thing I did > last, but you can decide what of those options suit you. > > Hope all this helps. > > Regards, > Gigi > > On Jan 15, 2012, at 12:59 PM, Kim Ellsworth wrote: > >> Hi Gigi, >> >> Thanks so much for your reply. I'm glad it isn't just me that is having >> problems with the drag and drop. I only made it work a couple of times; >> but, when I couldn't make it consistently work, I was disappointed. >> >> I'll do the copy and move commands you suggested in your post. I do have >> some folder organization to take care of as well. >> >> Kind Regards, >> Kim Ellsworth >> On Jan 15, 2012, at 1:40 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote: >> >>> Hi Kim. >>> I saw you got an answer to your question, but I would like to add >>> something. One of the frustrating things about the drag and drop feature is >>> that the reason it doesn't work reliably is that things go off the screen >>> and we don't know about it. I finally just started using the thing Ray told >>> you to do. >>> >>> I don't remember if he told about the move command, which I find works >>> better than the drag and drop. After you have done control c for copy, if >>> you to move things like files instead of just copy them, you can press >>> option, command, v for moving it. I have found that sometimes you have to >>> interact with the browser or open a folder you want to move to. Therefore, >>> I have started checking to make sure things got moved to where I thought >>> they were supposed to go. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Gigi >>> >>> On Jan 15, 2012, at 9:43 AM, Kim Ellsworth wrote: >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> I am using a MacBook Air running Lion. My husband gave it to me for >>>> Christmas; and, I love it. I've been reading Help tutorials and I often >>>> refer to the keyboard help as well. Thus, hopefully I won't need to ask a >>>> lot of basic questions that have already been asked before. LOL >>>> >>>> There is, however, an action that I am unable to make work for me. I'm >>>> sure there is an easy way to accomplish what I want; but, I'm just missing >>>> something. Using my address book, I've entered in all of my contacts. >>>> Because I have this need to always keep everything categorized, I've >>>> created several groups and hope to be able to organize my contacts into >>>> them. I tried using the drag and drop commands; however, I get the >>>> message that the item I marked for dragging is no longer visible. Thus, >>>> in short, how do I drag my contacts from the "all contacts" area over into >>>> the various groups I've created? >>>> >>>> Any help would be appreciated. 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