Make the most of the Spotlight menu
The easiest way to access OS X's powerful Spotlight search technology is using the systemwide Spotlight menu. But chances are you aren’t getting as much out of this menu as you could be. In this video, Dan Frakes show you a few tricks for making the most of the Spotlight menu.
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Apple’s Spotlight search technology is everywhere in OS X, but the easiest and quickest way to use it is the systemwide Spotlight menu: the little magnifying-glass icon at the far right end of your menu bar. Click this icon, and you can instantly search for many kinds of files and data on your hard—even applications; just select a result to open it.
But chances are you aren’t getting as much out of this menu as you could be. In this video, I’m going to show you a few tricks for making the Spotlight menu more useful.
Tweak your Spotlight settings: Before I get to the menu itself, let’s take a trip to the Spotlight pane of System Preferences. First, click the Privacy tab. If there are particular volumes or folders you never want Spotlight to search, drag them into the list here. Items contained in these folders and volumes will never appear in your Spotlight-menu search results.
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