Mac OS X Tip: Expand Your Dock
Did you know that you can use the Dock on Mac OS X for more than just a launch point for your programs? You can also use it as a shortcut point for functions on your computer. One example is copying and pasting text. Did you know that instead of copying text to you the clipboard, you can highlight it and drag it to the application of your choice in the Dock.
Dragging your text to the Dock will open which ever application you drag it to, and start that process. Want to quote an article in an email? Highlight the text you want to quote and drag it to the Mail icon in your Dock. This will automatically open the Mail application and start your email, text inserted. Want to start a letter quoting an item or list from and email? Highlight the text you want, and drag it to the Pages application in the Dock. Voila! New document.
This is a pretty neat time saving feature. It will work in any of the applications that are based in Cocoa. You can read more tips like this one on the Apple site, here.
Author: Leslie Poston, © 2007, All Rights Reserved
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March 27th, 2007 at 1:11 pm
I am always dragging PHOTOS into IPHOTO in the DOC, But I had no idea I could do that with words onto PAGES! Thanks!