It's always bothered me that I couldn't start typing a font name in Flash and have it autofill (like an Adobe app). I would have to scroll to the font I wanted. Sometimes that's a long scroll with all of the fonts I have on my machine.
Tonight I opened the font dropdown from the Properties menu and typed H ... and it dropped me a few hundred fonts down to Helvetica, where I happily kept scrolling for a few more fonts to settle on my choice. This open and type scheme also works in Photoshop; I'm asuming it probably works in other applications, too.
It seems pretty simple and obvious, but I've never noticed in the years that I've been working in Flash on OSX.
Mac OS X Hints
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2003121401480644