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.8), you can save documents directly ontoyour Internet-based iDisk hard drive just by choosing this command.(Actually, you can't save icons intoyour iDisk window you must save them into a folder within your iDisk.That's why the submenu of thisiDisk command lists the various folders on your iDisk, as described in Chapter 18.)When you do so, your Mac will dial and connect to the Internet (if you're not already online) and pull youriDisk onto the screen so that you can save your new document there.All of this takes a considerableamount of time, even if you have a high-speed connection like a cable modem or DSL.Favorite Places.This part of the pop-up list is a duplicate of the Favorites menu in the Finder, which isdescribed in Chapter 2.Its purpose is to list the disks, servers, folders, and other items you usefrequently, so that you don't need to burrow through your folders every time you want access.Recent Places.This part of the menu lists folders and disks you've accessed recently.Once again, theidea is to provide quick access to the folder locations on your hard drive that matter to you withoutexcessive navigation.4.5.3 Column-View NavigationWhen you save a file, the options in the Where pop-up menu have you covered 90 percent of the time.Mostpeople work with a limited set of folders for active documents.But when you want to save a new document into a new folder, or when you want to navigate to a folder that isn'tlisted in the Where pop-up menu, all is not lost.Click the large black triangle shown in Figure 4-11.After a moment, a familiar scene appears: a compact version of a Finder-window column view, as described inSection 1.6.TIPYour first instinct should be to widen this window, making more columns available.Do so bycarefully dragging the lower-right corner of the dialog box.Mac OS X will remember the size youlike for this Save sheet independently in each program.Now, using many of the same techniques described in Section 1.6, you can navigate your entire Mac system.For example, press the right and left arrow keys to navigate the columns, or the up and down arrow keys to highlightthe disk and folder names within a column.Once you've highlighted a column, you can also type to select thefirst letters of disk or folder names.Highlight the name of the folder in which you want to save your newly created document, or use these options:New Folder.Click this button to create a new folder inside whatever folder is highlighted in the columnview.You'll be asked to type the new name for the folder.After you've done so, click Create (or pressEnter).The new folder appears in the rightmost panel of the column view.You can now proceed withsaving your new document into it, if you like.NOTEThe keystroke -N no longer triggers the New Folder button.Remember that in Mac OS X,the Save sheet is nothing more than an attachment to your document window.Keystrokeslike -N go right "past" the sheet to the program you're using.In Microsoft Word orTextEdit, for example, pressing -N produces a new, untitled Word or TextEdit document,which appears right in front of the Save sheet.Add to Favorites.In addition to the methods described in Section 2.6, the Save sheet provides a quickway to add a particular folder to your list of Favorites.Just highlight the folder in the column view andthen click Add to Favorites.The favorite folder appears instantly in the Where pop-up menu in theFavorites section, of course.The point is that the next time you save a new document, you won't even have to bother with the columnview.You'll be able to jump quickly to the favorite folder you've just specified.The next time you save a new document, the Save sheet will reappear in whatever condition you left it.That is, ifyou used column view the last time, it will still be in column view.At any time, you can collapse it into simplifiedview, shown at top in Figure 4-11, by again clicking the fat black triangle to the right of the Where pop-up menu.4.5.4 Insta-Jumping to a Folder LocationWhether you're using the mini-sheet or the column view, you can drag the icon of any folder or disk from yourdesktop directly into the Save or Open sheet, as shown in Figure 4-12.Mac OS X instantly displays the contentsof that folder or disk.This shortcut can save you time when you want to save a file into, or open a file from, a deeply nested folderthat's already visible in the Finder.This feature is totally undocumented but well worth learning.Figure 4-12.The quickest way to specify a folder location when you're saving a file is to drag a folderor disk directly into the Save sheet.You'll see by the Where pop-up menu that Mac OS X has indeedunderstood your intention. 4.5.5 The File Format Pop-up MenuAlthough it's by no means universal, the Save dialog box in many programs offers a pop-up menu of file formatsbelow the Save As box.Use this menu when preparing a document for use by somebody else somebody whosecomputer doesn't have the same software.For example, if you've used a graphics program to prepare aphotograph for use on the Web, this menu is where you specify JPEG format (the standard Web format forphotos).4.5
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