GETTING TO YOUR MOST- USED FILES AND FOLDERS FAST

GETTING TO YOUR MOST- USED FILES AND FOLDERS FAST

Do you find yourself going to the same folders over and over again? (Of course you do, we all do, we just don’t admit it at parties.) Well, if this sounds like you, you can place these most-used folders right in the Sidebar so you can access the anytime (including from the right within the Open/Save dialog).  To add a folder to the sidebar, just click on t, the press Command –T (the old Favorites shortcuts from previous versions of the Mac OS X).  Although technically there’s still a Favorites folder (I talked about it in Chapter 1), it doesn’t really much help, because (1) there is no longer a keyboard shortcut to move a file into your favorites folder, and (2) you can no longer designated a folder to be a “favorite” from within Open/Save dialog boxes, like you could in previous versions.  Basically, Apple wants you to use the Sidebar to keep your most-used files and folders- that way, you can access them from Open/Save dialogs.

STEALING A FILE’S NAME, THEN SAVING RIGHT OVER IT

If you’re saving a file, you can use the name of an existing file by just clicking on it in the Save dialog navigation window.  Even if the file is grayed out,  you can still click o n it, and when you do, its name appears as your new file name at the top of the Save  dialog.  This is a huge timesaver.  When you click OK, it asks you if you want to replace it with the file you’re saving. If you’re saving a different version of a file, and all you want to do is add a version number (like “Brochure Inside Cover 2”), all you’d have to do is click on the existing file named “ Brochure Inside Cover” in the Save dialog, and that name would then appear has your new file name, then just type in a 2.

MENU SPEED TIP

Getting the right to the menu item you want to fast can save loads of time (Since we spend so much in time digging around in menu all day).  That’s why you’ll love this tip.  The next time you’re in a pop-down menu, instead of mousing down to the item you want to select, just press the first letter of the command you want to and the command becomes selected.  For example, to select the Customize Toolbar command, click once on the View menu, press “c”, then press Return.  That’s speed menus, baby! By the way, if two commands starts with same letter, type in the first two letters.