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PowerPoint, and Excel document that contains what you typed,

regardless of its name or folder location.

In fact, Windows isn’t just searching icon names. It’s also
searching their contents—the words inside your documents—as
well as your files’ metadata. (That’s descriptive text information

about what’s in a file, like its height, width, size, creator, copyright
holder, title, editor, created date, and last modification date. “Tags,
Metadata, and Properties” has the details.)

And it’s not just finding stuff on your PC. The results also include
matches from whatever is on your OneDrive (Figure 3-15), apps on
the Windows app store, and even websites found online by

Microsoft’s Bing search service.

Tip

If you’d rather not include your OneDrive contents in searches, open → →
Search → Permissions & History and turn off “Microsoft account.”

3. If you see the item you were hoping to dig up, tap or click to
open it.

In fact, if that thing is listed first in the results menu, tinted, then
you can press Enter to open it. If the thing you want is not at the
top of the list, click it, tap it, or “walk” down to it with the arrow

keys, and then press Enter to open it.

4. If you don’t see what you’re looking for, click a category

heading to see more results.

That step may take a little explanation; read on.

Filtering the Results