Apple 145B Finding an item by name, Choose Find from the File menu, Click the Find button

Finding an item

When the Finder is the active program, you can use the Find command in the File menu to find any item on any disk connected to your computer. (The Find command cannot locate items inside the System file. You need to open the System file to see its contents.)

Finding an item by name

1.Choose Find from the File menu.

The dialog box that appears lets you find an item by name.

Type the name (or partial name) you want to find.

Click to start a search.

Click to choose additional search criteria.

If the dialog box you see has more items than shown here, click the Fewer Choices button in the lower-left corner.

2.Type the name (or part of the name) of the item you want to find.

Capitalization does not have to match.

3.Click the Find button.

The first item that matches the name you typed is shown highlighted in a Finder window. If an item is found on the desktop, you see a message. If no item matches, you hear an alert sound.

4.To see the next matching item, choose Find Again from the File menu.

If no more items are found, you hear an alert sound.

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