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How to enable text selection in OS X Quick Look

<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><a href='http://www.imore.com/how-enable-text-selection-os-x-quick-look' title="How to enable text selection in OS X Quick Look"><img src='http://www.imore.com/sites/imore.com/files/styles/large_wm_brw/public/field/image/2015/06/how-to-quick-look.jpg?itok=4gJHPLPQ' />[/url]</p> <p>Find a document in the Finder you want to open, press the space bar, and while the document doesn't open, you are given a peek inside. That's OS X's Quick Look feature. It's been around for years — ever since Apple released OS X Leopard in 2007. Normally, Quick Look lets you look but not touch: You can see the contents of a file, but you can't select its text. To do anything more, you've typically had to open the document in an app. But that's something you can change with a quick visit to our good friend the Terminal application.</p> <!--break--> <p>For many of us, opening an application to get inside a document isn't that big of a deal. But it can slow you down, especially if you just need to copy a sentence or a paragraph of text. That's where this Terminal pro tip comes in. Obviously, it's only applicable to files with text content, as opposed to image files, MP3s and other non-text file types that work with Quick Look.</p> <h2>How to enable Quick Look text selection</h2> <ol><li>Open <strong>Terminal</strong>.</li> <li>Type <tt>defaults write com.apple.finder QLEnableTextSelection -bool TRUE</tt> and press <strong>return</strong>.</li> <li>Type <tt>killall Finder</tt> and press <strong>return</strong>. (You can copy and paste each of these lines of text into Terminal if you'd prefer.)

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