3. Finding What You Want with Spotlight

What You’ll Do

Find Information Using Spotlight

Find Information in the Spotlight Window

Filter Spotlight Results

Group and Sort Spotlight Results

Work with Spotlight Results

Set Spotlight Preferences

Search for Files Using the Find Window

Search for Hard to Find Information

Work with Find Window Results

Create and Use Smart Folders

Get Help While You Work

Get Help Using Spotlight

Introduction

If you’re looking for specific content on your computer or network and you don’t know where to find it, you can use Spotlight to help you locate it. Spotlight not only searches the names of your files and folders, it also searches their content. In addition, Spotlight searches other information stored in files, ...

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