Dialog box navigation

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jstonemo

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I have been using OS X for a while but the one thing that still really bothers me is the lack of quick dialog box navigation. In OS 9, I can navigate very fast by using the first letter of the folder or file name to highlight it or get very close to it in the window and then command click with the up or down arrows to navigate up or down one level at a time. But that seems to have gone away in OS X. I noticed I can select the first letter but it is always the pane to the left of the last pane in the window. I have to click the last pane in order to navigate by first letter. Is there something coming along to bring back that function?
 
What you describe is, I think, column view. To go up and down the levels you press left and right in column view (as each level is laid out side by side).

In the other view modes, you can still press Cmd-Down to go into folders and Cmd-Up to get out of them.
 
I think jstonemo is talking about dialog boxes, and so of course is discussing column view.

I, too, was discouraged with the inability to use keyboard equivalents in OS X's dialogs. Fortunately, Default Folder (St. Clair Software) adds back that functionality. Check it out! :)

-- Steve
 
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