Control your columns in Open & Save

16 04 2008

Leopard Tips and Tricks: “The columns in the Open & Save dialogues never seem to be the right size, so how do you do something about it?

  • Well, if you double click the little symbol with two vertical lines
    at the bottom of the columns in an Open/Save dialogue box, then it will
    fit that columns items into the view so you can see file names in their
    entirety.
  • If you hold down the option key when you do that it will do it to every column you see.
  • And finally, control-clicking or right-clicking brings up this little choice of things to do to the views:


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One response to “Control your columns in Open & Save”

17 04 2008
gord moore (18:49:29) :

Good tip. I knew I could click and slide the column to change the width, but your hints are nicer. Is there anyway to make the column-width change permanent?

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