| Tip 91 | Find Docs by Zooming |
Quick Look offers a fantastic way to preview documents (see Exploring OS X: Quick Look), but there’s an even faster way to look inside many documents at once using Finder and its Icon view feature. This can be very useful if you’re trying to locate a file based on its contents. Here’s how it’s done:
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Use Finder to browse the directory where the files are located, then switch to Icon view (select View→as Icons, or hold down Command and tap 1).
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Activate the Finder status bar by clicking View→Status bar.
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Drag the slider at the bottom right of the Finder window to its right extremity. This will make the file icons as big as they can be and also—crucially—provide readable previews of their contents. Make the Finder window ...
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