Quickly access Open Dialog Box in Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign

Quickly access Open Dialog Box in Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign

02/09/2011 6:00 am

If you want to spare every key click you possibly can, you can quickly access the Open Dialog Box in Adobe Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator with nothing but your mouse – and you don’t even have to make a trip to the File menu!

With no documents open, simply double-click an empty space in the Application Frame (the space normally taken up by a document window. The catch of course, is that you have to have the Application Frame active and no document open.

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