In the Spotlight menu’s search box, you can control-click a word and use the contextual menu to spell check your search term, or run a Google search with that term, etc.

[robg adds: that may be obvious to others, but I’d never thought to try control-clicking in the Spotlight search box. I’m not certain I’ll ever use the feature, but now at least I know it’s possible.

Obviously, that tip is for 10.4 and 10.5 only, but I don’t have a category for “10.4 or newer.” As such, I chose to leave it uncoded, given that the huge majority of users here are on at least 10.4. That’s how I’ll probably treat all such hints going forward, too, unless someone has a better suggestion.]

Original post by Michael Rose