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) ...

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 ...

Ralph Redan asked the Windows forum how to provide easy access to his favorite folders in File Open and Save As dialog boxes. All File Open and Save As dialog boxes have a list of favorite locations, ...

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 ...

A few simple tweaks let you add the location of your choice to Open and Save dialog boxes in Vista and XP. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' ...

Anyone know of a way on a win98 machine that I can create an icon that will prompt the user to open a file, and then open it in notepad?<BR><BR>I thought for sure there was a command line switch that ...

This post will show you how to automatically show Fewer details or More details in the File Transfer Dialog Box in Windows 11/10. The normal behavior of the file transfer dialog box is that when you ...

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 ...