Finder Sidebar without text, just icons?

How can I get the Finder Sidebar without text, just the icons?
(I want it as small as possible.) Thanks.

There is no way to have it display icons only, and there is no way to shrink it down beyond a certain point. You USED to be able to shrink it by dragging, until the text disappeared leaving the icons only, but that changed with Leopard. The screenshot you saw was undoubtedly of an earlier version of the OS. Furthermore, in Leopard if you turned it off you also turned off the toolbar. In Snow Leopard it is now possible to turn off the Sidebar, but keep the toolbar: either go to the View menu and select Hide Sidebar, or press the keyboard shortcut Command-Option-S. Clicking the lozenge in the upper right corner of a Finder window still turns off both the Sidebar and toolbar.
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