. The Spotlight Window As you may have noticed, the Spotlight menu doesn't list every match on your hard drive. | . The Spotlight Window As you may have noticed the Spotlight menu doesn t list every match on your hard drive. Unless you own one of those extremely rare 60-inch Apple Skyscraper Displays there just isn t room. Instead Spotlight uses some fancy behind-the-scenes analysis to calculate and display the 20 most likely matches for what you typed. But at the top of the menu you usually see that there are many other possible matches it says something like Show All meaning that there are other candidates. Mac OS X no longer tells you how many other results there are. There is however a second more powerful way into the Spotlight labyrinth. And that s to use the Spotlight window shown in Figure 3-2. . Spotlight Window from Spotlight Menu If the Spotlight menu its Most Likely to Succeed list doesn t include what you re looking for click Show All or just press Return or Enter . You ve just opened the Spotlight window. Now you have access to the complete list of matches neatly listed in what appears to be a standard Finder window. . Opening the Spotlight Window Directly You can also open the Spotlight window directly without using the Spotlight menu as a trigger. Actually there are three ways to get to the Spotlight window Figure 3-2 -F for Find get it . When you choose File Find or press -F you get an empty Spotlight window ready to fill in for your search. Option- -Space bar. This keystroke opens the same window. But instead of starting empty and filling up this window starts with a list of every single thing on your Mac and winnows down as you type a search query. Tip You can change this keystroke to just about anything you like. See Section . Open any desktop window and type something into the Search box at upper-right. Presto the mild-mannered folder window turns into the Spotlight window complete with search results. Once you type something to search for the results are identical. Figure 3-2. The Spotlight window either lists nothing top or everything .
