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- From: smills@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (MuffinHead)
- Subject: Re: WISH LIST (DO THESE EXIST?)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.203225.6880@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>
- Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
- References: <1992Aug25.192055.1760@ncsu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 20:32:25 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- dnwhiteh@eos.ncsu.edu (DUANE N WHITEHURST) writes:
-
- >WISH 1: I'd like to be able to move a file from an open window to a particular
- >sub-folder by just dragging the file over to the hard-disk icon (or any folder
- >on the desktop)and having a menu of all the sub-folders pop up similar to the
- >way beheirarch pops up menus and submenus for folders & nested folders under
- >the apple menu...this way..instead of opening up the window for the hard-disk
- >and the several layers down using a non-icon view, the menu would just pop up
- >and I could bury the file in the harddisk from the desktop....
- >??? DOES THIS FEATURE ALREADY EXIST SOMEWHERE ???
-
- Not that I'm aware. If you have only a few folders that you commonly
- want to drop things into, you could put aliases on the desktop. Or, you
- can always just go to your main drive window, choose View by Name, Select
- All, Command-CursorRight, repeat. This way, you'll always have drag-and-
- drop access to any folder on your drive. The folder expansion stays the same
- even after you go back to an icon view, then to by Name again.
-
- >WISH 2: Regarding the new drag and drop feature used to open files from the
- >application you drag them to....it seems that my Mac will only recgonize
- >files created by the application you drag them to...for example...if I drag
- >a generic document (which MS Word CAN open from its file menu when viewing
- >all readable files) to the Word application icon it won't highlight and I
- >can't open it this way...but it works great if I drag a Word file to the Word
- >application....is there a way to force Word to open the generic document?
-
- Launch ResEdit, Open Word, open its BNDL, choose Create New Item (or
- something like that), make its type '****', Save, Quit. I'm not sure if you'll
- need to rebuild the desktop after doing this before the change takes effect.
- Now you can drop ANY file onto Word and it'll be opened.
-
-