- 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 Menu Versus Spotlight Window
Since the Spotlight menu is so convenient (it’s right there in the menu bar, no matter which program you’re using) and you can just press Command-Spacebar to activate it, why not always use it instead of the Spotlight window? Well, the Spotlight window has some big advantages. First, you see all your results for a search. The Spotlight menu only shows the first 20. Second, the Spotlight window gives you the option to view the results in List, Icon, or Cover Flow view, which means you can use Quick Look to preview the results. Third, you can drag files to new locations or delete them directly from the search results window in the Spotlight window. Finally, your ability to refine searches using additional search criteria and the ability to save searches make the Spotlight window much more powerful than the Spotlight menu. The bottom line is Spotlight is awesome, whether you use the Spotlight menu (Command-Spacebar) or the Spotlight window (Command-Option-Spacebar). But for serious searching, the Spotlight window gets the nod.