Editing Label (Mac OS) (section)

==In classic Mac OS==
In [[classic Mac OS]] versions 7 through 9, applying a label to an item causes the item's icon to be tinted in that color when using a color [[computer monitor]] (as opposed to the black-and-white monitors of early Macs), and labels can be used as a search and sorting criterion.<ref name=Poole-p97/><ref name=Pogue2000>{{cite book |last=Pogue |first=David |author-link=David Pogue |date=2000 |chapter=Using labels |title=Mac OS 9: the missing manual |location=Sebastopol, CA |publisher=[[Pogue Press]], [[O'Reilly Media]] |pages=[https://archive.org/details/macos9missingman00pogu/page/40 40–43] |isbn=1565928571 |oclc=43813092 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/macos9missingman00pogu/page/40 |chapter-url-access=registration}}</ref> There is a choice of seven colors because three bits are reserved for the label color: <code>001</code> through <code>111</code>, and <code>000</code> for no label. The names of the colors can be changed to represent categories assigned to the label colors.<ref name=Poole-p97/><ref name=Pogue2000/> Both label colors and names can be customized in the classic Mac OS systems; however, [[Mac OS 8]] and 9 provided this functionality through the Labels tab in the Finder Preferences dialog, while System 7 provided a separate Labels control panel.<ref name=Poole-p97/><ref name=Pogue2000/> Labels in Mac OS 9 and earlier, once customized, were specific to an individual install; booting into another install, be it on another Mac or different disk would show different colors and names unless set identically. A colorless label could be produced by changing a label's color to black or white.<ref name=Poole-p97/><ref name=Pogue2000/>