You can also access the Finder window search after you’ve started a query in the Spotlight menu (useful if you’ve got too many results). You can limit your search to the folder you’re in when you start the search, or expand it to your entire Mac. Press command-F to open a search window in the Finder. You can open a Finder window and click in the search field at the top, or you can press Command-F to convert any open Finder window into a search window. There are several ways to access Spotlight in the Finder. And, when you move to the Finder, you have even more power to search. When you search in the Finder, you’re actually searching the Spotlight index on your disk you just perform your searches from the Finder’s search field instead of the Spotlight menu. In this final article, I’m going to move from Spotlight to the Finder, and show you how to perform even more advanced searches. In my previous two articles about using Spotlight on Yosemite, I looked at Spotlight basics and then showed you how to construct search queries with Spotlight.
