Robin Williams Mac OS X Book, Jaguar Edition, The

Document Icons

Document icons represent documents, or files, that you (or someone like you) have created in any particular application. Whenever you are working in an application and you save your document with a name, a document icon is created for you somewhere on your Mac.

Document icons almost always look like a piece of paper with the top-right corner folded down, as you can see in the examples below. Typically document icons have some resemblance to the application they were created in, as shown below and on the previous page.

Notice most document icons have an “extension,” which is a two- to fourletter code at the end of the name. Although you don’t always see them, these extensions are very important in Mac OS X; see page 227 for more ...