Change Finder label names
Mac Tip #12/18-July-2001

Those labels (see Tip #11) are pretty handy but maybe you don’t like the choice of colours. And what say “Hot” and “Project 1″ aren’t useful to you?

Well, you can change both these things to suit yourself. First make sure you’re in the Finder then go to Edit menu — Preferences. Now click on the Labels tab.

You can now easily change the names of the labels to something useful to you — clients, family, movies, fun, urgent — whatever will mean something to you.

You can change the colours too — click on the small box of colour and the Apple Colour Picker will appear. Now just choose a new colour.

Don’t understand the the Apple Colour Picker? Well, there’s a tip on that soon.

Note: changes you make to the colours and label names apply to your whole computer.