Documents display

[Wheat]

On my MacBook Pro how do I change the display of files in the Documents folder from icons to alphabetical list?

 

[Spawn_Dooley]

Try using these keyboard shortcuts the different view options available:

 1
 2
 3
 4

 

[Wheat]

Try using these keyboard shortcuts the different view options available:

 1
 2
 3
 4

I'm not sure I understand this suggestion. Is the Apple symbol a function key? I don't have one.

 

[Spawn_Dooley]

Do you see this symbol ⌘ on the key either side of the spacebar? I think this symbol replaced the  on newer keyboards as the Command symbol.

If you press this key & press either 1 through to 4 you'll see the different Finder folder views.

 

[Wheat]

Hi. Sorry to be slow to respond, but that Command key and numbers 1 - 4 don't do anything at all.
Now I see that these commands do relate to the open Documents folder that I reach through Finder. They don't affect the view in the Sidebar Icon, though.

 

[Spawn_Dooley]

On my MacBook Pro how do I change the display of files in the Documents folder from icons to alphabetical list?

The display of files in any Finder folder can be changed using those keyboard shortcuts.

⌘ 1 displays the files as icons ⌘ 2 as a list ⌘ 3 in a column ⌘ 4 in Coverflow.

They don't affect the view in the Sidebar Icon, though.

Are you asking about the Sidebar because I understood you were asking about the display of files?

 

[Wheat]

I found that your information about changing the view in the display of files in the Finder folder worked; thanks.
Yes, it's the view in the Sidebar Documents that resists my efforts to get a list rather than icons.

 

[Spawn_Dooley]

Does your Finder sidebar look like the one in the attached image?

 

[Wheat]

Does your Finder sidebar look like the one in the attached image?

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When I select Finder, yes, but when I am looking at the desktop or using Safari, my Sidebar is a collection of program icons, including Documents . When I select that Documents icon, I see the collection of file icons that I initially complained about.