Quick tips for fast file access
Quick tips for fast file access
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Tip If you're like most people, you have a long list of documents in your working directory, more than will fit in the Open dialogue box. Scrolling through this list every time you want to open a file is time-consuming, especially if the file is near the end. Here are three tips to speed file selection: 1. Type the first letter. In Windows 3.x or Windows 95, select File--Open, click once on any filename in the Open dialogue box, then type the first letter of the file you want to open. The highlight will jump to the first filename that starts with that letter. If there's more than one file, continue pressing the letter until the file you want is highlighted. Press <Enter> to open the document. 2. Force often-used files to the top of the list. If you have a document you load again and again, save it with a name that begins with an exclamation mark, the character that appears first in any sorted list box. Your file will now top the Open dialogue box, as in the figure below. This technique works in all Windows programs.
3. Sort files by date. In Windows 95, to find the file you most recently worked on in a folder, click the Details icon in the Open dialogue box, then click the Modified column button to sort the files by date (see below). You may have to click twice to sort the files in descending, rather than ascending, order.
| Category: Word processing, Win95, Windows 3.x Issue: Oct 1997 Pages: 170 |
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