Tip #912 - Quicker File Access
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Quicker File Access
Want a faster way to open a file?
When most of us go to open a file, we click the File menu, Open (OK,
some of us use the little toolbar button), then we scroll along hunting for
the file so we can double-click it.
Well, if you have a ton of documents in a folder, this can get time consuming.
If you know the exact name of the file, you can simply type it in the little
dialog box and hit Enter .
For example, if you're looking for a file named " my file.txt " you
would type in:
Then hit Enter
What if you don't know the exact name of the file? Don't worry. I have a shortcut
for that too. Click inside the little dialog box (specifically, the area where
the file list is) and start typing the first letter or two of the file. The
dialog box should highlight the first file that starts with those letters.
Oh, and you need to type those first few letters quickly for this little trick
to work.
Here's a snap shot. In this example, I quickly typed " my- " and
it went to the "my-file" file automatically.
Cool huh?
~ Steve
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