Q. I recently upgraded to Leopard and I wanted to use “Quick Look” but it is not coming in the Finder. How can I load it in the toolbar?
A. There is an unfortunate side affect to upgrading your Mac from either Panther or Tiger and that is the new features of the Finder don’t appear as advertised. The reason is that your preferences are preserved when you choose “Archive and Install” when installing Leopard over your Tiger installed Mac.
“Quick Look” and the new “Cover Flow” features normally appear in the toolbar at the top of the new Finder Windows. Quick Look allows you to read a text file, or view an image or even play a movie without having the open the application that created it. Cover Flow allows you to “flip” through your files and quickly preview them.
The upgrade installer preserves your preferences and doesn’t replace the toolbar items. To correct that or customize the toolbar choose “Customize Toolbar” from the “View “ menu while you have Finder window open. To get the standard Leopard settings choose “drag the default set into the toolbar”. You could also add any other items from the dialog box that you would like.