Searching for a Program

The Featured, Top Charts, and Categories icons at the top of the Mac App Store give you different ways to browse for a program. If you happen to know all or part of the program name you want, it may be faster to simply search for that name instead.

To search for a program by name, do the following:

  1. Start the Mac App Store (click the App Store icon on the Dock, etc.).

  2. Click in the Search field that appears in the upper-right corner of the Mac App Store window.

  3. Type all or part of the program name you want to find (such as elem) and press return. The Mac App Store window displays a list of programs that match your search criteria, as shown in Figure 22-4.

    Note

    The more of the program name you type, the fewer irrelevant programs ...

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