You can start a slideshow from there, or just press Option-Space to open Quick Look in Full-screen view with the slideshow already started. To remove the distraction of your Desktop, click the Zoom button in a Quick Look window. Next to those buttons is a Thumbnail button that displays the selected files in a grid-click any thumbnail to focus on just that item. The Left and Right arrow keys let you cycle through your selection there are also Forward and Back buttons that appear in the top left of the Quick Look window. Select a bunch of files and press the Space bar to open them all in Quick Look. Quick Look works well for comparing multiple similar files. You can even interact with the Finder while using Quick Look, which means you can delete an unwanted photo by pressing Command-Delete while previewing it. In List view, for instance, using the Up and Down arrow keys can be a great way to browse through a collection of pictures.

If you need to scan through a set of files in a folder, you can navigate between them using the arrow keys while the Quick Look window remains open - how you move among the files depends on the Finder window’s view. But you aren’t limited to just viewing a file in Quick Look: click the Open in app-name button to open the file in its default app, or click the Share button in the upper right to send the file to someone else via email or Messages or another sharing service. If the document you’re previewing has multiple pages, you’ll see thumbnails that you can scroll through using your mouse or trackpad, or by pressing the Page Up/Page Down keys. Press the Space bar again to close the window. If it’s a supported type of file, Quick Look displays a window showing the contents of the file. To give it a spin, find a file in the Finder, click it once to select it, and press the Space bar. Finder icons sometimes hint at what’s inside, but if you find yourself opening file after file to look at the contents quickly, OS X has a little-known feature just for you: Quick Look.

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