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. Customizing Spotlight You've just read about how Spotlight works fresh out of the box. But you can tailor its behavior, both for security reasons and to fit it to the kinds of work you do | . Customizing Spotlight You ve just read about how Spotlight works fresh out of the box. But you can tailor its behavior both for security reasons and to fit it to the kinds of work you do. Here are three ways to open the Spotlight preferences center Choose Spotlight Preferences at the bottom of the Spotlight menu just after you ve performed a search. Use Spotlight -Space bar type spotl and press Enter. Choose System Preferences. Click Spotlight. In any case you wind up face-to-face with the dialog box shown in Figure 3-6. Figure 3-6. Here s where you can specify what categories of icons you want Spotlight to search which order you want them listed in the Spotlight menu and what keystroke you want to use for highlighting the Spotlight bar. You can tweak Spotlight in three ways here all very useful Turn off categories. The list of checkboxes identifies all the kinds of things that Spotlight tracks. If you find that Spotlight uses up valuable menu space listing say Web bookmarks or fonts stuff you don t need to find very often turn off their checkboxes. Now the Spotlight menu s precious 20 slots are allotted to icon types you care more about. Prioritize the categories. This dialog box also lets you change the order of the category results just drag an individual list item up or down to change where it appears in the Spotlight menu. The factory setting is for Applications to appear first in the menu. That makes a lot of sense if you use Spotlight as a quick program launcher which is a great idea . But if you re a party planner and you spend all day on the phone and the most important Spotlight function for you is its ability to look up someone in your address book then drag Contacts to the top of the list. You ll have fewer arrowkey presses to perform once the results menu appears. POWER USERS CLINIC The Raw Power of the Raw Query You may have just slogged through over 20 pages of Spotlight details but if you can believe it there are another 40 or 60 to