Quick Look Keyboard Shortcuts

L,

From various sources:

Click on the icon you'd like to view, and hit the space bar. Hitting the Space Bar when in Quick Look usually closes Quick Look. But when you're in Quick Look's full-screen mode for a PDF or Word document, pressing the Space Bar will page down, just as it does in most web browsers. And yes, Shift-Space Bar pages up.

You can use Quick Look with more than one file selected—

Quick Look will show the first file in the selection, and you can then use the Left and Right arrow keys to move through your selection. You can also click the four-paneled icon in the Quick Look toolbar to view an index page, showing small versions of every file in your selection.

So here’s the tip: you can switch between the single-file and index sheet views by pressing Command-Return, saving yourself a trip to the mouse. (For extra eye candy, hold down the Shift key, too, and you’ll get to see the switchover between the two view modes in glorious though time-consuming slow motion.)

Otherwise, I couldn't find any of these shortcuts on the Apple site....

Bob

Also, if you have a QuickLook view going, and you press and hold the Option key, the cursor turns into a magnifying glass, click the mouse to magnify the image. When you have it zoomed and release the Option key, the cursor turns into crossed arrows, click hold and drag around to view different areas. Holding Option-Shift when zoomed in brings up the minus zoom.

Here's a really weird one: if you want to navigate using the arrow keys in full screen mode, first hit Command-Tab to switch to another program, then again to switch back to QuickLook, after which hitting the arrow keys works to move from item to item. Works best in List view.
Francine


Francine
Schwieder

Also, you can option-spacebar to go to fullscreen mode as well.

I just discovered that option-spacebar actually goes into slideshow mode, although it also goes full-screen when doing so.