Using Quick Look in Leopard

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Quick Look is an awesome new feature in Leopard which allows you to view the enter contents of your documents at nearly full size level without needing to launch the associated application. This feature is especially helpful if certain applications take some time to load. You can even view the document full-screen by clicking the full-screen arrows on the preview window.

To launch Quick Look, select the item or items you want to view and press the Spacebar key. Once the document is loaded, use the scroll bar to browse the pages of your document. If you wish to display the next document in the folder, you don’t even need to exit Quick Look – just press the up arrow or down arrow on your keyboard to move to the next file in the folder hierarchy.

As of this writing, Quick Look supports graphic files, PDF files, text files, most popular audio and movie files, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel documents, vCards, Fonts, HTML documents and iWork applications (Pages, Numbers and Keynote).

Quick Look also offers a built-in slideshow feature. Highlight all of the items you want included in your slideshow, launch Quick Look and then click the Full Screen view icon. Each image will appear on the screen for about three seconds.

To Use Quick Look
Select the item or items you wish to view with Quick Look.
Press the spacebar (or Press the Command + Y keystroke combination or click select File > Quick Look from the Finder menu)
Click the Full Screen icon on the Quick Look window to view the document in full screen size.
To use Quick Look’s Slideshow feature:

a. Select the items you wish to include in the slideshow.

b. Launch Quick Look.

c. Click the Full Screen button to commence the slideshow.

d. Click the Pause button to stop the slideshow at any time.

e. Press the Esc key to stop the slideshow.