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in the usual way by selecting from the timeline on the right of the screen. See
Note that this works only if the iCloud view is selected in the file-browsing
window. If a standard file-browsing dialog is open and showing files on your
hard disk, selecting to use Time Machine will cause OS X to switch to an open
Finder window to display files.
Tip 91
Find Docs by Zooming
Quick Look offers a fantastic way to preview documents (see
Exploring OS X:
Quick Look
, on page 103
)
, but there's an even faster way to look inside many
documents at once using Finder and its Icon view feature. This can be very
useful if you're trying to locate a file based on its contents. Here's how it's
done:
1.
Use Finder to browse the directory where the files are located, then switch
to Icon view (select View→as Icons, or hold down
COMMAND
and tap
1
).
2.
Activate the Finder status bar by clicking View→Status bar.
3.
Drag the slider at the bottom right of the Finder window to its right
extremity. This will make the file icons as big as they can be and also—
crucially—provide readable previews of their contents. Make the Finder
window bigger by dragging its edges if you can't see all of each icon.
4.
Click View→Arrange by→Kind. This will sort the files into horizontal
“shelves” according to their file type (pictures, PDFs, Word files, and so
on).
5.
Scroll up and down through the shelves and left and right through the
icons to view each file's contents (if you're using a standard PC mouse
without a horizontal scrolling feature, you can use the cursor keys to
highlight each file and navigate through them in that way). You should
see enough of the file's contents (albeit with small text) to know what's in
each file. PDF files and Word document icons will have two arrows on
them at the bottom of their icons to advance forward/backward in the
pages of the documents (sadly, spreadsheets and presentations don't
feature this!).
