![Tagging a Mac](https://daveberesford.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Tagging-a-Mac.png)
Do you want to go to certain files quickly?
The little-known Tags feature in MacOS is the handy and simple way to do this.
If you click the Finder icon…
![Clicking Finder on a Mac](https://daveberesford.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Click-Finder.png)
You’ll see your Tags in the bottom-left corner of the screen…
![Tags in the Finder window](https://daveberesford.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Tags-in-Finder.png)
You can apply any of these tags to any of your files on your Mac and this makes them easier to find…
![Viewing an existing tag and its files](https://daveberesford.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Looking-at-the-Tips-Video-Tag.png)
So how do you set up Tags?
Click Finder, and then go to the Apple menu and select Finder – Preferences…
![Clicking Finder - Preferences](https://daveberesford.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Go-to-Finder-Prefs.png)
Then click the Tags tab, and you’ll see that you can modify any existing tags or create new ones from here…
![Preferences windows for Tags](https://daveberesford.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Preferences-for-Tags.png)
Then you can rename an existing Tag, or create a new one…
![Renaming a tag](https://daveberesford.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Rename-tags1.png)
You right-click the Tag and select Rename, type the name and press Enter…
![](https://daveberesford.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Rename-tags2-1.png)
Then you drag the renamed tag down to the Favourite Tags area so it is available when you want to apply it (via the right-click menu)…
![dragging a tag to Favourites](https://daveberesford.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Drag-tag.png)
Now, when you are in a Finder window you can easily apply it to a file (or series of highlighted files)…
![Applying a tag to some files](https://daveberesford.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Applying-tags-960x518.png)
When you’ve finished, the tag will show in Finder…
![Tagged files](https://daveberesford.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Tagged-files1.png)
When you then click the tag in the Finder window, you’ll just see the tagged files…
![Tagged files shown after clicking the relevant tag in Finder](https://daveberesford.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Tagged-files2.png)
Have a look at this video, which shows you the full process: