We all know that it can be a pain finding a specific file you want to open in a sea of other files in Windows default open file or file upload dialogs, especially if it's mixed in with several other ...

Here’s a simple trick you can use in OS X 10.5’s Open dialog box. Say you’ve decided to open a saved file in a given application. You press Command-O (or select File -> Open if you’re menu-inclined) ...

More Mac 101, our series of tips for new and novice Mac OS X users. Here's a tip that I was recently reminded of while choosing photos from a web browser for upload. Mac OS X Leopard's Finder has a ...

Am I missing something, but when in an application, I click Open and get the open file dialog. There is a search box. If I type something in there it doesn't seem to work when I'm opening from a ...

A few weeks back, Dave Caolo wrote about double-clicking the pipes at the bottom of Finder's column view to automatically resize a column to accommodate long file names. This feature isn't just in ...

One of the joys of being a power user is when you use keyboard shortcuts to shave precious seconds off of your workflow routines. While you may know all the system shortcuts there are (⌘ + C for Copy, ...

Ever since I uninstalled Windows ME (upgrade from 98, then downgraded again) The sort order in the open file dialog has changed from sorting filenames in ascending view to sorting by date in ...

If your Word document is corrupted, it might cause Word to freeze when saving. Use the Open and Repair command in the Open File dialog to try to fix it; alternatively, you can run Word in Safe Mode to ...

Learn how the search box works in Excel’s file open dialog to quickly find your files. Tips for faster and smarter navigation ...