- 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
Power Searching Is, Uhhhh, Powerful
This tip takes you into territory rarely visited by normal humans. If you do this, you must never let anyone know or they will fear you. Imagine you have music files in all different formats scattered all over your drive which you want to consolidate. Easy. Press Command-Spacebar and type “kind:music” (without the quotes) into the Spotlight search box and you will instantly see a list of every music file on your Mac. Wow! Try this one: type “kind:mail” (again, no quotes) into the search box and be amazed at the number of emails you have stashed away (you’ll need to click Show All to see the whole list). The magic behind power searching is the ability to pair an operator (kind) with a keyword (music). Tiger (the previous version of Mac OS X) had a few operators available, but Leopard has...well, no one knows for sure how many operators are available for searches in Leopard.