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Opening a document by double-clicking it

Opening a document by double-clicking it - Illustrator Tutorial

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Opening a document by double-clicking it

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- [Instructor] All right, so as promised, I'm going to start things off by showing you how to open a document inside Illustrator just by double-clicking on its thumbnail, first here under Windows, and then later in this same movie, on the Mac. Now, you Macintosh users could scrub forward if you want to, but I'm going to be offering some cross-platform advice in the meantime. And so, here I am looking at the contents of the 01 documents folder, which is available to those of you who have downloaded the exercise files. At which point, I'm seeing three files called Welcome. Now on a Mac, you should see their extensions .Ai, .eps, and .svg. But here on the PC, even though this is where extensions were invented in the first place, they're hidden by default. In which case, you'll want to click on the View tab and then, turn on this checkbox right here, file name extensions. And if you can't see that checkbox, it may be…

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