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How to do a basic search with Spotlight
#138 | 2:30 |
Wednesday March 18, 2009
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Wednesday March 18, 2009
You have a lot of data on your Mac. Text files, documents, music, graphics, spreadsheets, presentations and more. The Spotlight gives you a way to find just about anything on your Mac quickly and easily and even searches the contents of some files to return reliable results.
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- Open Spotlight by clicking on the Spotlight icon in the upper-right corner of the menu bar.
OR
- Click Command + Spacebar.
- Begin typing what it is you want to find.
- This can be a partial file name, text inside a document, a song title and so on.
- As you type the search results are refined.
- You can open any found item right from Spotlight.
- Use Spotlight to find Albums or even specific songs.
- Use it to find articles, documents and the like.
- Use Spotlight to find graphics you want to preview.
- Use it to find text within documents.
- You can use Spotlight to find virtually anything on your Mac and then open that item right from Spotlight.
OR
- Click Command + Spacebar.
- Begin typing what it is you want to find.
- This can be a partial file name, text inside a document, a song title and so on.
- As you type the search results are refined.
- You can open any found item right from Spotlight.
- Use Spotlight to find Albums or even specific songs.
- Use it to find articles, documents and the like.
- Use Spotlight to find graphics you want to preview.
- Use it to find text within documents.
- You can use Spotlight to find virtually anything on your Mac and then open that item right from Spotlight.
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