HIDDEN COLUMN VIEW NAVIGATION TIP

HIDDEN COLUMN VIEW NAVIGATION TIP 

Here’s somewhat of a weird problem (and a simple fix): Let’s say you have your Favorites folder in your Sidebar, and you click on it to get to some of your favorite files. If you’re viewing all this in Column view, the first column winds up being the contents of your Favorites.   You can’t scroll to a column farther back (like to your Library folder, which holds your Favorites folder or to your Home folder or User folder, etc.) Well, you can’t unless you know this hidden little tip: Just hold the Command key and press Up Arrow key on your keyboard.  Each press it, it moves you back farther, so instead of hitting “the wall” when you’re in the Favorites column, now you can keep going as far as you want.

CREATING YOUR OWN KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS

Keyboard shortcuts are such huge time- savers, but sadly, not all Finder commands have them.  But they can, because in panther, you can create your own. Here’s how: go under the apple menu, to system preference, and choose keyboard & mouse. When the dialog appears, click on the Keyboard shortcuts tab, then click the + (plus) sign at the bottom left of the dialog. A dialog appears. Choose finder from the pop-up list, then type in the exact name of the menu command you want to add a shortcut for. Then, type in the shortcut you want to use, and click the add button. It’s that simple.

THE SAVE DIALOG SAVES ITSELF

The Save dialog as an excellent memory. Because not only does it remember the recent folders that you saved to, but it also remembers if you expanded it into column view or sketched out the size. The next time you open that application and go to save a file, it remembers that you like column view and how large you made the dialog. It treats it as if you’re setting “Save dialog” defaults for that application.