So you already know how energetic spotlight is. It searches files, it’s a calculator, a dictionary, it’s just plain cool. I use spotlight every day, I’d rather use it than the dock or finder in most cases! Today I watched a video on the apple.com website on boolean searching in Spotlight.

Say you want to search for a document with “marketing” in the filename, and it’s a presentation. You’ve got several presentations for different years, eg

Marketing 2007, Marketing 2008, Marketing 2006, etc. You want to find all the Marketing files that are NOT 2006.. In spotlight type:

marketing NOT 2006

You can use different operators however they must be in CAPS, Eg. NOT, AND, OR.

Perhaps you have “DVD Marketing 2007″ and “Blu-Ray Marketing 2007″. You want the DVD file..

marketing AND DVD

Give it a go!

Orginal post by James