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Monitoring operations


    A progress bar indicates that an operation is in process. You can interrupt the process or have the program notify you when it has finished.

To cancel operations:

    Hold down Esc until the operation in progress has stopped. In Mac OS, you can also press Command+period.

To set notification for completion of operations:

  1. Do one of the following:
    • In Windows or Mac OS 9.x, choose Edit > Preferences > General.
    • (Photoshop) In Mac OS X, choose Photoshop > Preferences > General.
    • (Photoshop) In Mac OS X, choose ImageReady > Preferences > General.
  2. Do one of the following:
    • (Photoshop) Select Beep When Done.
    • (ImageReady) Select Notify When Done and choose (Mac OS only): System Alert to use your system alert for notification or Text to Speech to use a spoken notification.
  3. Click OK.