Quickly manage documents from the path menu in OS X

Sometimes it's convenient to work with a document in more than one program at once. For example, if you initially open an image in Preview to quickly crop or resize it, you might decide you want to touch it up in Photoshop instead.

One approach for doing this is to switch to the Finder, right-click the document, and then use the Open With contextual menu to open the document in the program of interest, but there are a few other approaches you can take to quickly open the current document in one application in another without having to use contextual menus in the Finder.

You can take advantage of a unique OS X feature in which a reference to a file saved on disk is available in the title of the document window. If you right-click or hold the Command or Control buttons while clicking the document's title, you will see a menu that shows the path to the document.

Right-clicking or Command-clicking the title of a file saved to disk will reveal that file's path.

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Using this menu, you can not only reveal the document in the Finder, but also quickly access it for loading in other programs.

The classic use of this feature is to reveal the document in the Finder by opening the path menu and then selecting the document's parent folder; ... [Read more]