January 2018
Beginner
883 pages
27h 22m
English
Content preview from macOS High Sierra: The Missing Manual
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Chapter 4. Spotlight
Every computer offers a way to find files. But Spotlight, a star feature of macOS, shows matches for your search word beyond your Mac; it can fetch results from the web, from Apple’s app and music stores, in the Maps app, from movie theaters, and so on. As a bonus, it’s also the world’s most flexible calculator. It can not only do math, but it can also convert things: kilometers to miles, Celsius to Fahrenheit, euros to dollars, and so on.
And it can pull down more information types from the Internet, like sports scores (and schedules and rosters and player stats), Twitter handles (and hashtags), weather, stock quotes, and lists of Vimeo and YouTube videos.
Finally, you can now use “natural language” searches. That is, you can type out plain-English queries that describe what you’re looking for, like “files I worked on in January,” “slides from 2017 containing WidgeTech,” or “images from last year.”
The Spotlight Menu
See the little magnifying-glass icon (
) in your menu bar? That’s the mouse-driven way to open the Spotlight search box.
The other way is to press 
-space bar. If you can memorize only one keystroke on your Mac, that’s the one to learn. It works both at the desktop and in other programs.
In any case, the Spotlight text box appears just below your ...
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