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TMO Quick Tip - Drag and Drop Documents Revisited

by , 7:30 AM EDT, May 25th, 2007

In music, variations on a theme bring out nuances and different perspectives in a melody. In tips, they show you even more ways to take advantage of clever time-saving techniques.

In a recent Quick Tip I showed how to make a new email message with an attachment in Apple's Mail application by dragging a file onto Mail's icon. Afterwards, TMO reader Michael Osadciw emailed me to point out that you can do the same thing by dragging the icon from a document title bar onto the Mail icon.


Drag the icon from a document title bar...

Michael's pointer is spot-on, but the trick works with other applications as well. In fact, dragging the icon from a document title bar works with most any application - as long as the receiving app recognizes the file format.


...onto an application icon...

I sometimes use this technique when I am working on Web page layouts in Taco HTML Edit and want to see what they look like in a specific browser. I simply drag the document's icon onto the icon for the Web browser I want to use to view the document, and it opens instantly.


...to automatically open the document in a new application.

Jeff Gamet is TMO's Morning Editor and Reviews Editor. He lectures, teaches and speaks on Mac OS X and design-related topics, and is the author of The Designer's Guide to Mac OS X from Peachpit Press.

if you have tips or tricks to share, or Mac-related questions you want answered.

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Close Name:JonGl Posts: 93 Joined: 12 Jan 2006
Fri May 25, 2007 10:10 am Subject: Since you are using Omniweb

as I see...

You can also drag your file icon to the "tabs" drawer, and drop it there.

And for real voodoo, invoke Exposé, and find you window with that! D&D is wonderful in X.


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