- 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
Change the Order of the Results
Not only can you limit the types of results Spotlight will show you, but you can also customize the order in which they are displayed. Let’s say you’re a creative type and find that most of the time you search for music, movies, and photos. By default Spotlight will display text files, Address Book contacts, and others at the top of the results list and put your items near the bottom. If you want to see the files you are most likely to want displayed first, go to the Apple menu, select System Preferences, then click on the Spotlight icon. The file categories are listed in the order they will appear in your search results. To change the order, just click-and-drag them up or down the list. From now on, the most important files will be right at the top of the list where they belong.