That’s probably a no-brainer these days, but I was reminded recently how much I have come to depend on Google to find things for me! The other day, I opened a file that someone sent me in Adobe Illustrator to edit it. Everything was perfectly viewable, but not editable.
There was this pesky little icon of a pencil with a line through it. I thought it had to be some setting, so I looked through Illustrator to see if I could find it. I even used Command-I on the file to see if it was a locked file, but no dice. So, I Googled it. I entered “illustrator pencil line” and what do you know… the first thing that came up was a forum where someone had asked the same question. Turns out it was a locked layer. Of course!
Moral of the story: enter the search criteria using the most pertinent words you can think of to describe the query (and omit uneccessary ones). Hopefully, you’ll find what you were looking for. Thanks, Google!
(In a related Google search, I came across another good tip regarding icons, but I’ll write more about that next week!)