Spotlight Shuriken
A weapon of choice for many - Spotlight. Learn an array of use cases and shortcuts for one of the most powerful features in OS X.
Lesson Content & Links:
Adjusting Settings: System Preferences > Spotlight
- Set your Keyboard Shortcut (Usually ⌘ + Space)
- Which results / file types to show
Using Spotlight / Shortcuts
- Launch Spotlight: ⌘ + Space
- Launch Spotlight inside Finder: Option + ⌘ + Space
- Clear Search: esc
- Close Spotlight: esc esc
- Open First Term: Enter
- Navigate results: down arrow & up arrow
- Navigate jump categories: ⌘+ down & up arrow
- View item in Finder: ⌘ + Enter
Advanced
- Advanced Searches (Apple Support: http://bit.ly/19lwvP6):
- kind:pdf marketing
- kind:images created:8/27/13
- kind:application
- kind:pdf
- kind:jpeg
- kind:word
- kind:folder
- kind:image
- kind:audio
- date:today
- date:yesterday
You can use Spotlight as a quick Calculator
- Copy Result: ⌘ + C
Misc Commands and features:
- Look Up - see a word in the dictionary and get synonyms.
- Web Search / Google any keyword or phrase.
- Search Wikipedia.
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Training Information
Video Time: 13:28
Action Tips:
Start using Spotlight regularly. MOST Importantly, practice using ⌘+Space to activate it. Super quick to launching Apps and surfing / previewing files. Practice it. Spotlight is powerful.
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