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effort expended by the programmers who wrote its program (that is,

whether they wrote preview handlers for their document types).

Details Pane

To open this panel (Figure 2-8, inset), click “Details pane” on the Ribbon,
or press Shift+Alt+P. You get all kinds of information about whatever icon

you’ve clicked in the main part of the window: its size, date, type, and so
on. Some examples:

For a music file, the Details pane reveals the song’s duration, band
and album names, genre, the star rating you’ve provided, and so

on.

For a disk icon, you get statistics about its formatting scheme,

capacity, and how much of it is full.

For a Microsoft Office document, you see when it was created
and modified, how many pages it has, who wrote it, and so on.

If nothing is selected, you get information about the open window
itself: namely, how many items are in it.

If you select several icons at once, this pane shows you the sum
of their file sizes—a great feature when you’re burning a CD, for

example, and don’t want to exceed the 650 MB limit. You also see
the range of dates when the icons were created and modified.

What’s especially intriguing is that you can edit many of these details, just
by clicking and typing.

Navigation Pane

The navigation pane is the helpful folder map at the left side of a File
Explorer window. It’s something like a master map of your computer, with
a special focus on the places and things you might want to visit most often.

Quick access list