Vista Open/Save dialog images
May 17th, 2008 Val
Thank goodness - and the good techie folks, especially Becky and Kat at LVS - the comments link has been fixed. Yesterday I posted a note about the Open dialog in Vista. Folks using CorelDRAW X4 need to take note of this since much of the functionality that used to be in the CorelDRAW interface has now been left to Vista.
I did get the details to stick by simply saving a file and closing the program. Next time I opened it, all the details were there for that FOLDER. Unfortunately, I don’t think you can customize per program. There are some details that make more sense with a photo program like PhotoPaint (various exif info) and some that make more sense with CorelDRAW. You can customize the details you see for these in Explorer for each FOLDER, so if you keep your photo projects separate from your vector projects, you’ll get the details you need. If you make the customizations in Explorer outside of the Open/Save dialog, you can even apply your details preferences to any subfolders.
Here are some screen shots of the open dialog. I’ve added a BUNCH of details to the dialog, more than what most folks would want, but you should go through the list and decide what makes the most sense for you and how you work. Take a look at the details (More) list by right clicking in the headings line. You’d be amazed at some of the things you can add. For CorelDRAW folks, you can get a list of embedded fonts, see if there are external bitmaps, make all sorts of project notes, see word counts and object counts. It’s a pretty amazing list and worth the time to take a gander.
I’ll apologize for the image quality here on the blog. It seems to automatically resize things strangely. If you right click on an image and choose “View Image” or something like that in your browser, you’ll get a much clearer picture.
Left side of Open dialog:
Right side of Open dialog:
Save As dialog showing where to click to add Tags to your file:
Have fun!
Val P.
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