- 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
Avoiding Junk Search Results
There is one caveat to the previous tip. If the word you are looking for is contained within another word, you’ll get a bunch of “junk” hits. For example, search for “he” (I can’t think of an instance when you would want to search for “he,” other than when you need an example for a Spotlight search tip, but you never know) and if you leave off the quotes, Spotlight will find things like she, the, help, where—you get the idea. So if you know the exact word or phrase you are looking for, put it in quotes and Spotlight will eliminate the junk for you. The same thing applies to multi-word searches. If you know the name of the file you’re looking for is 2005 Bucs Roster, you would search for “2005 Bucs Roster” with quotes around it.