{"id":3824,"date":"2012-03-12T21:03:33","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T10:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/?p=3824"},"modified":"2012-03-12T21:03:33","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T10:03:33","slug":"search-for-specific-document-types-in-mac-os-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/search-for-specific-document-types-in-mac-os-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Search for Specific Document Types in Mac OS X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quick tip for Mac OS X Lion users tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, I have covered the way to <a title=\"Refining File Searching Under Windows 7 | Boydo's Tech Talk\" href=\"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/refining-file-searching-under-windows-7\/\" target=\"_blank\">search for specific document types using Windows Search<\/a>\u00a0which ended up being rather unintuitive and complex for a regular user (and to be honest, I forgot about the command as well).<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that under Mac OS X Lion it&#8217;s somewhat easier to narrow your searches by file type. All you need to do is prefix the document type with &#8220;kind:&#8221; followed by the document type. So you might try the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>kind: excel<\/p>\n<p>kind: pdf<\/p>\n<p>kind: word<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a fairly simple way to home in on a file when you know the file type but perhaps not the name<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick tip for Mac OS X Lion users tonight. Previously, I have covered the way to search for specific document types using Windows Search\u00a0which ended up being rather unintuitive and complex for a regular user (and to be honest, I forgot about the command as well). The good news is that under Mac OS &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/search-for-specific-document-types-in-mac-os-x\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[348,151,18],"tags":[10,1531,1595,901],"class_list":["post-3824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-macos","category-operating-systems","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-lion","tag-mac-os-x","tag-search","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Mac-Logo.png?fit=256%2C256&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}