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      id="files-preview">

  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="files"/>
    <link type="seealso" xref="nautilus-preview"/>
    
    <desc>Quickly show and hide previews for documents, images, videos, and more.</desc>

    <revision pkgversion="3.2" date="2011-09-26" status="final"/>
    <credit type="author">
      <name>Shaun McCance</name>
      <email>shaunm@gnome.org</email>
    </credit>
    <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
  </info>

<title>Preview files and folders</title>

<p>You can quickly preview files without opening them in a full-blown application.
Select any file and press the space bar. The file will open in a simple preview
window. Press the space bar again to dismiss the preview.</p>

<p>The built-in preview supports most file formats for documents, images, video,
and audio. In the preview, you can scroll through your documents or seek through
your video and audio.</p>

<p>To view a preview full-screen, click the
<media type="image" src="figures/view-fullscreen-16.png">fullscreen</media>
button near the bottom, or press <key>f</key>. Click
<media type="image" src="figures/view-fullscreen-16.png">fullscreen</media>
or press <key>f</key> again to leave full-screen, or press the space bar to
exit the preview completely.</p>

</page>
