You can type a bit to get in the general vicinity and then tab to go to
the next item alphabetically or arrow to go to the next item
geographically. So if you are in list view and sorted by date, up and
down will go older or newer while tab will go alphabetically from where
you are. I think it's faster launching apps this way. To start Safari,
in the finder type Apple-Shift-A then saf then Apple-O rather than
wading through the dock.
CB
David Poehlman wrote:
just use type ahead. if you know what you want begins with sa, type sa and
you'll go right there. if you have a lot of sa folders, try something like
sat and it will take you to the first instance of that string.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tiffany D" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 9:00 AM
Subject: Searching by Letter
I've been wanting to address this for awhile but keep forgetting.
Anyway, I have alot of folders in my music folder that start with
similar letters. in Windows, when I hit s, for example, I can keep
cycling through the files or folders that begin with that letter. But
in the Mac, it gives me only one file/folder and no matter how many
times I hit the letter, it'll only give me that one. I have to
manually go over all the folders and remember their order so I can
find the one I want. Is there any way to change this? Does anyone
know why it happens?
Thanks,
Tiffanitsa
