Image dragged into an open Pages document And you probably will know right where it will end up, because you can drag it to where you want it within the document.įor example, if you have a document open in Pages you can drag a file right into it. That’s about as much control as you can get– you know for sure exactly what app will handle the job because you’re literally adding the file to an existing document. Some apps let you insert a file right into a document window simply by dragging it in. So the apps you care most about are always close at hand– you don’t have to go all the way to the Dock to click them. The Finder toolbar can serve as a mini Dock, and it’s super handy because the icons are at the top of every Finder window.
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Wondering how to add app icons to your Finder windows? Very easy: use the Command-drag method. (I keep the Calculator in the Finder toolbar for easy, one-click access without going to the Dock.) If the app can’t handle the dragged file you get a circle and a slash, as I would if I dragged my sample.jpg file to the Calculator icon. How do we know that something will happen when we drag our file over an app’s icon? Same way that we know when we drag a file over an icon in the Dock, or over an icon in the Applications folder, or over an app’s alias icon: the icon highlights (technically, it darkens).
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How do we tell the Mac that we always want to use a certain app for a certain file? But let’s say you want to open this file with something other than the default app, every time. You know that double-clicking a file will open it up, so how does the Mac know which app you want to use? Well, the menu you get when you Control-click gives a hint: the app at the top of the list has “(default)” after it, and that means it’s the app that will open unless you say otherwise. (Your “Open With…” menu will probably look different than mine, because you probably have a different set of apps on your Mac.)
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Just slide over to the app you want to open the file with, and voilá. For example: Control-click for “Open With…”
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You can do this too: just hold the Control key down and click (once) on the icon you’re interested in. How did I know which apps could open a JPEG on my Mac? I used the Control-click method, that’s how. For example, on my Mac the following apps can open a JPEG: Some documents, especially images, can potentially be opened by several apps on a Mac.