- 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
Spotlight Window
So far in this chapter, we’ve looked at the Spotlight menu, which is great when you want to search your entire drive and get back lots of results. But there’s another search option in Leopard, Spotlight window, for those times you want to focus your searches on certain kinds of files, date ranges, etc. Using the Spotlight menu is like sending a man to Home Depot to buy one bag of wimpy screws to hang a picture. He’ll wander up and down every aisle in the store looking at all the new power tools, nail guns, and pressure washers—you know, manly stuff. Two hours and three hundred dollars later, he comes back home with a fifty-cent bag of screws, along with a few extra things. Using the Spotlight window, in contrast, is like emptying all the money and credit cards from your husband’s pockets (leaving $0.54 to cover the screws and tax, of course) before he heads out to buy the screws. To use the Spotlight window, press Command-Option-Spacebar. When the window opens, you’ll see that every file on your drive is listed. All you have to do now is scroll down the list until you see the one you want—just kidding. The power of the Spotlight window is the ability to filter your search results by using the criteria and location bars. The next few tips will show you some nifty stuff you can do with the Spotlight window.