Quick Look As the preceding several thousand pages make clear, there are lots of ways to view and manage the seething mass of files and folders on a typical hard drive | . Quick Look As the preceding several thousand pages make clear there are lots of ways to view and manage the seething mass of files and folders on a typical hard drive. Some of them actually let you see what s in a document without having to open it the Preview column in column view the giant icons in Cover Flow and so on. Quick Look new in Leopard and very welcome takes this idea to another level. It lets you open and browse a document nearly at full size without switching window views or opening any new programs. You highlight an icon or several and then do one of these things Press the Space bar. This is by far the best technique to learn. After all unless you re editing a file s name what s the Space bar ever done for you in the Finder Nothing. But in Mac OS X Leopard you can highlight any icon and then tap the Space bar for an instant preview. Press -Y. Another keystroke for the same function. The Space bar is still better though. Click the eyeball icon at the top of the window. If you don t see the big eyeball icon you probably upgraded your Mac from an earlier version of Mac OS X. But you can add the eyeball to the toolbar easily enough as described on Section Choose File Quick Look. Choose Quick Look from the Action menu at the top of every Finder window. Control-click or right-click an icon from the shortcut menu choose Quick Look. You exit Quick Look in any one of these same ways. Note Whenever Quick Look appears in a menu or a shortcut menu its wording changes to reflect the name of the icon. For example it might say Quick Look Secret . In any case the Quick Look window now opens showing a nearly full-size preview of the document Figure 1-25 . Rather nice eh Figure 1-25. Once the Quick Look window is open you can play the file movies and sounds study it in more detail most kinds of graphics files or even read it PDF Word and Excel documents . You can also click another icon and another and another without ever closing the preview the
