Top 10 Open & Save secrets
Discover things you didn’t know you could do when opening and saving documents on your Mac
You probably don’t give much of a thought to the windows that appear when you open a new document or save one you have been working on. What more is there than selecting where to save a file or which one to load? Actually, there is quite a lot more to these windows than you might think and there are many hidden features that can enable you to perform actions and navigate the disk.
Open and Save windows used in apps are like Finder windows and what works in Finder often works in Open/Save. Not sure which file to open? Select it and press spacebar to view it with Quick View. Don’t want to change a file? Ctrl+click, duplicate it and edit the copy. Here are more things you can do in Open/Save windows that you probably weren’t aware of.