Find Text
To find a specified string of text in a Spotlight grid
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Open the Find dialog.
Toolbar Menu Shortcut Click Right click the grid data and select Find.
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Use the controls:
Control Description Text to find
Enter or paste in the text you want to find.
Match case
Select to match the case of the text exactly. When selected a search for the string AbC will not find the string abc.
Match entire cell contents
Select to match the contents of the table cell exactly. When selected a search for the string Spot will not find the string Spotlight.
Up
Search upwards from the current location then stop.
Down
Search downwards from the current location then stop.
Search all columns
Search all columns of the table.
Search selected column only
Search only the highlighted column.
Find next
Find the next occurrence of the text in the grid.
Note: The Find function may be of limited use in dynamic columns (Elapsed time is one example) whose values are continually updated.