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Incidentally, Mac notebook users (and those using Apple wireless keyboards)
can hold down the FN key while hitting the Up/Down cursor keys to emulate
PAGEUP / PAGEDOWN .
Tip 221
Jump Around Open/Save Dialog Boxes
When saving new files, you are usually taken to iCloud, if you have it enabled,
or to the last location where you saved a file on the disk (or the app's default
Save location if you're using it for the first time). If you want to save the file
elsewhere, it can be cumbersome navigating there.
However, if you already have a Finder window open browsing where you want
to save, just click and drag the proxy icon from the Finder window to the
Where drop-down list within the app's Save As dialog box. You'll instantly be
switched to that location.
The proxy icon is the little icon in the title bar of the Finder window, to the
left of the name of the folder you're currently browsing. You'll need to click
and hold for a second before it detaches, and you can drag it away.
If you instead drop the proxy icon in the filename field, you'll see a Go To
dialog box asking you to confirm you want to switch directories. Just click
the Go button.
This trick works in File Open dialog boxes, too.
Tip 222
Regain Control of a Crashed Mac
Very occasionally an application might crash so badly that it appears to lock
up your Mac. You might see the “beach ball of death,” that spinning color
wheel that indicates your Mac is too busy to respond to you.
There are various ways of attempting to regain control, as follows.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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