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Spotlight’s default scope button menu provides only a few of the many predefined search filters available in Mac OS X Leopard. The default choices are Kind, Last opened date, Last modified date, Created date, Name, Contents and Other. If your favorite search attributes aren’t included as default options, you may wish to add them for [...]

The Mac OS X Leopard version of Spotlight supports Boolean logic. This doesn’t mean you’re limited to creating complicated AND/NOT/OR queries in the Spotlight search field. You can open the Spotlight window and build a Boolean search using as many of the 145 predefined search attributes as you wish. Here’s how.