Working with Properties in the Details Pane

In its default size, the Details pane has room to display a small thumbnail of the selected file (if a thumbnail is available), plus a few properties. The number of properties shown depends on your screen resolution. In the following illustration, we see only five properties—Title, Authors, Size, Date Modified, and Tags.

Working with Properties in the Details Pane

You can make more properties appear by enlarging the Details pane. Dragging the divider upwards, for example, changes the property display dramatically (it also brings the thumbnail closer to readability):

The properties that appear are of two types—read-only and read/write. Date properties ...

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