Hi I'm new here and I'm happy to be the proud owner of my first MAC computer. Loving it so far but I need to get used to some functions available to a normal PC. Can anyone telll me if it's possible to search for spefic words within a document or website. When I search for specific items in a.
Many Windows-based computers come with a version of Microsoft Word, the widely used word processing software. More often then not, however, Apple computer's do not come with any version of Word. Instead, you must buy the program, which can be expensive for any business especially if you want to install the program on multiple computers. You can, however, open Word documents pn a Mac laptop or desktop computer without having to download any special program. Apple includes a free, basic word processing program called TextEdit on all machines running OS X, its computer operating system.
Use TextEdit to open Word documents on your Apple computer.
Were you using Spotlight directly? My own test had used straight Finder searches of textiles, and I didn't originally set a 'name contains' condition. I've now looked a little further, again using Finder searches: I created a test folder containg 6 textiles.
3 of the textiles did not contain any content, but had filename variations containing egg; the other 3 textiles contained a single word with variations on eggbutteryellow, but their filenames did not contain 'egg'. The Finder window of that folder looked like this. The 'bye' textile contained the word butteryellowegg, etc:! A straight search of the folder for 'egg', looking at 'File Name' gave:! A straight search for 'egg', looking at 'Contents' gave:!
Setting the condition 'Name contains egg', looking at File Name, correctly gave:! Setting the condition 'Name contains egg, looking at Contents surprisingly also gave:! An EasyFind wildcard search for egg looking at contents correctly gave:! Seems odd to me! Apple Footer. This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only.
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