- You Cant Use It If You Cant Find It
- Spotlight Menu: Its Fast, Easy, and Always There
- Open Your Top Hit Fast
- Get Smarter with Just One Click
- Daniel Webster Would be Jealous
- Break the Top 20 Barrier
- Put Some Limits on Spotlight
- See What You Wanna See
- Change the Order of the Results
- Use Quick Look to Be Sure You Have the Right File
- Spotlight Window
- Refine Your Searches in Spotlight Window
- Add Items to the Search Criteria pop-up Menus
- Saving Spotlight Searches as Smart Folders
- Power Searching Is, Uhhhh, Powerful
- Sometimes Less Can Be More
- I Search, Therefore I Find
- A Little Help With More Complicated Searches
- Dont Know the Exact Filename? No Problem
- Sometimes Its Whats Inside That Counts
- Avoiding Junk Search Results
- Search Inside Your Photoshop Documents
- Spotlight Menu Versus Spotlight Window
- Searching the System Preferences
- Opening? Saving? Spotlight Will Help
Use Quick Look to Be Sure You Have the Right File
Does this ever happen to you? You do a search, get the list of results, say, “Oh, yeah, that’s the one,” click to open it, wait for the right application to launch, wait for the 300-MB Photoshop file to open, look at it and realize it’s not the file you want? No? Never happens to you? Okay, well in case you have a friend who has had this frustrating experience, here’s the solution: Instead of opening one of the files Spotlight found, click Show All to see the results in the Spotlight window. Now click (don’t double-click) on one of the results, press the Spacebar, and enjoy the beautiful preview Quick Look serves up for you. If you want to check out several files, just Command-click on them before you press the Spacebar, and Quick Look will open a slide show of all the files you selected.