Geek Posted March 9, 2012 Posted March 9, 2012 <div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/spotlight-icon.jpeg" alt="Spotlight icon" title="spotlight-icon" width="200" height="202" class="alignright size-full wp-image-28219" /> Spotlight is Mac OS X’s powerful built-in search engine. Not only will it find just about any file or folder buried on your drives, but it also doubles as a fantastically quick application launcher. If you aren’t using Spotlight on a regular basis yet you really should start doing so, and with that in mind here are 11 helpful keyboard shortcuts to get the most out of Mac search feature.</p> <h2 style="font-size:1.2em;">4 Basic Spotlight Shortcuts</h2> <p>These are the most basic shortcuts to use Spotlight:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Open Spotlight menu</strong> – Command+Space</li> <li><strong>Open Spotlight in the Finder</strong> – Command+Option+Space</li> <li><strong>Clear Spotlight search box</strong> – Escape</li> <li><strong>Close Spotlight menu</strong> – Escape twice</li> </ul> <h2 style="font-size:1.2em;">7 Spotlight Usage & Navigation Keyboard Shortcuts</h2> <p>These shortcuts are for interacting and navigating within Spotlight search results:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Open first search item</strong> – Return</li> <li><strong>Navigate search results</strong> – Arrow Up and Arrow Down</li> <li><strong>Open to location of first search item in Finder</strong> – Command+Return</li> <li><strong>Get Info on search item</strong> – Command+I</li> <li><strong>Show Quick Look Preview of Spotlight results</strong> – Command key or hover with the Mouse cursor (OS X 10.7 and later only)</li> <li><strong>Show path/location of search result</strong> – Command+Option while hovering over search result</li> <li><strong>Jump categories in search results</strong> – Command+Arrow Up or Command+Arrow Down</li> </ul> <p>Remember these tips and you’ll be mastering Spotlight in no time! </p> <p>Don’t forget that you can <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/01/06/improve-your-spotlight-searches-with-search-operators/">use search operators</a> to improve results by looking only for specified file types or dates, and more. We have <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/spotlight/">plenty more Spotlight tips</a> if you’re interested too, check them out.</p> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ZVoAg1h9F_yn3t-EaxyddAyxe5s/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ZVoAg1h9F_yn3t-EaxyddAyxe5s/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ZVoAg1h9F_yn3t-EaxyddAyxe5s/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ZVoAg1h9F_yn3t-EaxyddAyxe5s/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=vm2AO7SjT_Y:dYOLb_4VPgc:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=vm2AO7SjT_Y:dYOLb_4VPgc:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=vm2AO7SjT_Y:dYOLb_4VPgc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=vm2AO7SjT_Y:dYOLb_4VPgc:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=vm2AO7SjT_Y:dYOLb_4VPgc:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=vm2AO7SjT_Y:dYOLb_4VPgc:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=vm2AO7SjT_Y:dYOLb_4VPgc:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/~4/vm2AO7SjT_Y" height="1" width="1"/> View the full article
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