Keyboard shortcuts for switching Finder views
Written by Brent Sheets
Jan 15
There are four buttons on the Finder toolbar for switching between Icon View, List View, Column View and Cover Flow View. Did you know there are keyboard shortcuts for quickly switching Finder views? Here’s how.
If you can count to four, you can remember these Mac OS X Finder keyboard shortcuts. Simply press Command and the number that matches the order of the View buttons.
keyboard shortcuts for finder views
Command+1 → Icon View
Command+2 → List View
Command+3 → Column View
Command+4 → Cover Flow View