More on Spotlight
Jason Snell at MacWorld looks at Spotlight, and has this very good tip: When searching, you can use parentheses and the pipe character to make better searches.
A search for “apple | oranges” will give you documents containing either apple or oranges, but not both. BTW, the pipe character is at ALT 7 on most Mac Keyboards.
In the MacWorld forums, there’s some even more advanced ways to search. Also see Ars Technica’s very long review of OS X Tiger, with a long article on Spotlight too.
If you haven’t noticed yet, in Tiger you can Spotlight search any word marked in any program. Want to find all other instances of a word? Double-click it, CTRL-click it and choose “Search with Spotlight” in the contextual menu.
More Spotlight search tips at Apple.
UPDATE: Even more advanced tips at Apple’s Developer site.
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