10.4: Select Spotlight's top hit via a shortcut

May 03, '05 12:47:00PM

Contributed by: Anonymous

Tiger only hintWhen searching with the Spotlight Command-Space drop down menu, here's a quick way to select the top hit. Just hold the Command button down after searching, and Spotlight will select the top hit item, and you can then hit return to select and activate it. This is much easier than having to hit the down arrow to select the top hit.

[robg adds: In addition to choosing the Top Hit, you can use Command plus the arrow keys to quickly jump between the first hit in each category (Applications, Documents, Folders, etc.). Command-down and Command-up make it very simple to jump between the various categories of results...]

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