User Guide

Chapter 3: Browsing
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Options Use the Calendar pane options to specify which date you want to use
to organize your files. For example, you can quickly change so that you
display photos by the following:
x Date the ACDSee database catalogued the file
x Date the image was taken
x Date the file was modified
x Date the file was loaded to your compute
You can click Options to open the Calendar where you can set filter
options, choose the day to start the week, and set clock formats.
Previous
Item
Selects, and moves to, the closest previous date that has photos.
Next Item Selects, and moves to, the next closest date that has photos.
Adding descriptions and thumbnails in Events view
You can add a description and a thumbnail image to dates in Events view to help you
remember the event.
To add a description to a date in Events view:
1. Expand the month to see the dates on which images or media files are available.
2. Click Enter event description and replace the highlighted text with a new description.
3. Press Enter or click outside of the description area. The description is saved.
To select a specific thumbnail in the Events view or Photo Calendar:
1. Expand the month to see the dates on which images or media files are available.
2. Click on a date to display the images or media files in the File List pane.
3. Click and drag an image or media file and drag it to the thumbnail area for the date.
When you release the mouse button the thumbnail is saved. You can reset the default
thumbnail by right-clicking the thumbnail and selecting Restore Default Thumbnail.
To navigate a long list of dates in Events view:
1. To expand and collapse specific groups click the +/- signs which are located on the left
side of the group header.
2. To expand and collapse all groups right-click a group header and select either Open All
Groups or Close All Groups.
3. To scroll through multiple groups click the Next Group
and Previous Group
buttons, which are located at the bottom of the File List scroll bar.
4. At the bottom of the Calendar pane scroll bar, click the Table of Contents
button and
select a date.