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Spotlight Searches in Finder
You can perform a Spotlight search directly from any OS X Finder window.

Simply type your search into the box in the upper right hand corner of the Finder window and surely enough, the Spotlight results will be displayed within the current window. As you can see, the results will be sorted by type. I've simply clicked on the triangles to collapse the results so you could see all the file types.


Want to narrow down the search or make it more specific? Just click on the plus sign at the upper right to add options to the search. Just keep clicking it to see the options you have. For example:

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