When you start using the new Mac OS
organizing data and applications is not a big deal. You can easily find
and access the data. But when the applications and the internal storage
increases it is hard to manually search and find everything you need.
In order to get the desired information quickly on your Mac we have a
feature called “Spotlight“. It is a quick search feature, which helps to search the entire mac applications
and data within a fraction of second. This instant search technique
starts searching the entire computer within a moment you start typing
the word on the search box.
Spotlight is a one of the best desktop
search technology, which display the search results in an organized way.
When you search for a particular keyword it will search in all the
applications, files, folders, documents, emails, contacts, etc. Not only
on the keywords, you can use spotlight for searching
specific file extensions in your Mac. For example, you can search for
files with an extension of .JPG from the spotlight search which will
display all the .JPG files on documents, emails, files,
folders, applications, etc. Also you can type the file name along with
the extension to narrow down your search.
How To Effectively Use Spotlight On Mac ?
Spotlight is an excellent search feature available for most of the Apple’s default application on Mac. Finder on Mac
use the same spotlight features to search contents and application in
the internal hard drive. Not only in Finder it is also available for system preferences
and various other applications on Mac. So you can easily search and
find the content belongs to that particular application instantly using
this search feature.
The Spotlight search is
kept in the desktop for the convenience of users. Instead of going to
that specific application to search the content you can easily search
from the desktop. For example if you want to search a mail you can do
that from desktop using Spotlight. Just type the email id or the subject
or the name of the person to find that particular mail right from your
desktop.
You can adjust the settings of Spotlight search in System Preferences of your Mac. Otherwise you can click on the Spotlight preferences option at the end of every search results. Using Spotlight Preferences
you can change the settings on displaying search results. Also you can
reorder the categories of search results in Spotlight preferences.
Once you finished typing the keyword, if you didn’t get your desired content you can use “Show All in Finder” option to see the complete search results for that particular keyword.
You can use the “Command + Space bar”
button to open the spotlight search in your desktop. In spotlight
search, if you want to search some specific areas like Home folder or a
particular user account, just click one of the button below the toolbar
to tell Spotlight where and what to search. These are the spotlight
search techniques to find the desired content on your Mac instantly.
Use Spotlight on Mac OS here after to
access files and do more with it. Try this feature on your Mac and
share your experience with us in the comment box. Thanks for reading,
have a great day !
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