Search For A Word Mac

• Use the Finder to locate the file to which you want to add keywords. • Right-click the file, and select Get Info from the pop-up menu. • In the Get Info window that opens, there's a section labeled Comments. In and earlier, the Comments section is right near the top of the Get Info window, and is labeled Spotlight Comments.

In and later, the Comments section is around the middle of the Get Info window, and will likely need to be expanded by clicking on the disclosure triangle next to the word Comments. • In the Comments or Spotlight Comments section, add your keywords, using commas to separate them.

You can search for words or sets of words within a specific article. For example, maybe you want to find every instance of the word 'twin' in an article you are.

• Close the Get Info window.

• from: - find email senders. • kind:mail from:sender@example.com finds all mail from sender@example.com. • kind:mail from:'Michael Mountain' finds all mail from Michael Mountain. • to: - find email recipients. • kind:mail to:recipient@example.com finds all mail to recipient@example.com.

• kind:mail to:'Desiderius Drimmelen finds all mail to Desiderius Drimmelen. • subject: - find email subjects. • kind:mail subject:recipe finds all mail with 'recipe' in. • kind:mail subject:'cookie recipe' finds all mail with 'cookie recipe' in the Subject line.

• kind:mail subject:cookie subject:recipe finds all mail with both 'cookie' and 'recipe' anywhere in the Subject line. • date: - find email by date received. • kind:mail date:today finds all mail received today. • kind:mail date:yesterday finds all mail received yesterday.

• kind:mail date:'this week' finds all mail received in the last 7 days. • kind:mail date:'this month' finds all mail received this month. • kind:mail date: finds all mail received on Oct. • kind:mail date:> finds all mail received since Oct. 10, 2010; make sure the date uses the format you've specified in System Preferences. • kind:mail date. • OR - find email that matches either search term or operator.

20 20 software for mach. • kind:mail from:me@example.com OR from:'Desiderius Drimmelen' finds all mail from Desiderius Drimmelen or me@example.com. • kind:mail from:'Desiderius Drimmelen' ('Moriae encomium' OR stulticiae) finds all mail from Desiderius Drimmelen that contains either 'Moriae encomium' (as a phrase) or 'stulticiae'. • AND - find email that matches all search terms or criteria. • Spotlight automatically assumes AND combination, but you can make it explicit. • kind:mail from:'Desiderius Drimmelen' ('Moriae encomium' OR stulticiae) can also be kind:mail AND from:'Desiderius Drimmelen' AND ('Moriae encomium' OR stulticiae), for example.

• NOT - find email that does not contain a term or does not match an operator. • kind:mail from:@example.com NOT from:'Michael Mountain' finds all mail from the example.com domain but not those from Michael Mountain, even if his contains '@example.com'. • kind:mail from:'Michael Mountain' (Sebond OR NOT essai) finds all mail from Michael Mountain that contain either 'Sebond' or do not contain 'essai'; messages that include 'Sebond' and 'essai' will show up.