The first step in changing the Preview Picture setting is to open NOTE: In earlier versions of Excel, a Preview Picture was also available in the Excel Open window, but doesn't work in the current version.

In Excel, so you can see a small screen shot of the file contents, when you select a file in the Windows Explorer list. This article explains how to change one of the property settings This awesome tip was sent in to us by Keir Thomas, the author of a book called Mac Kung Fu and the guy who discovered the cool iTunes “Now Playing” notification that has since become popular on the Mac web.When you're opening files in Windows Explorer, you can see a list of files in

This works in any new version of OS X from 10.7, 10.8, 10.9 Mavericks, and beyond. The video below demonstrates enabling this feature: To deactivate the text selection setting, and return to default behavior, open a Terminal window again, and this time type the following:ĭefaults delete QLEnableTextSelection killall Finder You can test out the results by using QuickLook (usually the space bar) to see a preview window of text, which is now selectable and can be copied for pasting elsewhere. The changes take effect immediately as Finder is relaunched. To activate the hidden Quick Look text selection setting, open a Terminal window (Terminal app is found in the /Applications/Utilities/ directory) and type the following command exactly:ĭefaults write QLEnableTextSelection -bool TRUE killall Finder The Quick Look window can still be moved around the screen by clicking and dragging its title bar, as with any other program window.

However, a secret setting will let you click and drag as usual to highlight text, and you can use the standard key combination of Command+C to copy text.

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