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Contribution of Chin Wei Lien
Having Quick Look shipped together with our Mac is such a fortune, not only it helps us quickly preview our files but also it illuminates our day with its great interface.
A little finding here is that if we select multiple pictures at one time in Finder and press space bar, a Quick Look window will pop up in an instant1.
Take notice of the option to view pictures in different format just next to scrolling arrows (after separator). Pressing on that turns Quick Look window into Index Sheet2. And in order to go back to normal view, escape key can be used.
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- Quick Look in Normal Mode
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Quick Look in Index Sheet Mode
You can use keystrokes command-enter to change to this mode.
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23 Comments
Alessandro Cocco
Thanks, I didn't know this feature! Is there a keyboard shortcut for Index Sheet?
Wendy
In Mac OS X Tiger, you can Press I for going inside Index Sheet. However, this hasn't been disabled in Mac OS X Leopard.
Ben
Didn't know about this too! I can't get the keyboard shortcut "I" to work. :|
Matt
Hey great tip :] And damn, i can't get the shortcut to work either~ Explanation? :P
Wendy
It's too bad that the shortcut won't work for the latest version of Mac.
Tombo
Nice pics!!
joem
Instead of hitting "I", in Leopard, you can hit "Command-Enter" (after having hit "Space" to enter quicklook) to get into Index Sheet mode.
You can also hit "Command-Option-Y" to enter quicklook in fullscreen mode. My favorite quicklook mode: fullscreen index sheet. For a little more on this, check out this page on OSXHints.
Harrison
use the spacebar to preview stuff in quicklook
Wendy
Thanks Joem, it works with command-enter. I've added it to this post.
Danijel
nice tip :) to bad i use Leopard with my Alu-MB btw wendy, if thats you on the picture, ar you singel? ;)
Wendy
Too bad, that's not me on the picture. Screenshots are submitted by Chin Wei Lien also (the contributor of this article).
Alessandro Cocco
@joem: thanks! ;)
Danijel
but is the girl on the picture singel? ^^
Chin Wei Lien
No, she isn't "singel". She's my girlfriend, so hands off.
Girl in the picture
:p
thisiswiki
nice tip, pretty couple:)
Danijel
darn ^^ well your a verry lucky guy ;) hold on to her is just a tip from me :P
Riker
@joem If you have a multitouch trackpad, you can also use the zoom-in (i.e., unpinch) gesture to fullscreen a quick look window. Then pinch it to go back from fullscreen to windowed.
cudo
hi, is there way to force quick look to view all the pictures without having to select all of them ? basicly i go whatever folder press space to enter quick look and than if there are more pictures in this folder i can view them all instead of having to choose the pictures i want to see. or maybe there is way of setting the built in preview app to browse all the pictures in the folder without having to choose them all ?
ohabu
@cudo: What you can do is open the first picture then just use arrow down (in finder list view) so you are actually moving in the finder window.
bm
Yeah! Right!
Riker
@cudo - Alternately, you can cmd+a to select all in one shot before activating quick look...
kelly
this is a great tip!
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