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Use search shorthand. When you use either of those filtering

methods, you may notice something weird going on in the search
box itself: New words appear there. If you search for kumquat and
then click the Apps icon at top left, for example, the search box
now says “apps: kumquat.” If you then click the Web icon, it

changes to say “web: kumquat.”

In other words, those clickable buttons and menus are just human-
friendly ways of modifying your search query in the way Windows

really understands: with search codes. Given that fact, there’s
nothing to stop you from typing them manually. If you want to find

a document called “Pretzel Recipe,” you can do a search for docs:
pretzel (or documents: pretzel). If you’re hunting for a song called
“Tie a Purple Ribbon,” you can just type music: purp or
something.

Quick Actions

See the at the right side of everything in the results list? It’s a gateway

into a handy quick-actions panel for one of your search results (Figure 3-2).
You can click or tap the , or, if the item is already highlighted in the list,
you can press Enter.

For an app, the quick-actions panel might list options like Open, Run as
administrator, Open file location, Pin to Start, and Pin to taskbar. For a
photo or document, it might say Open, Open file location, and Copy full

path—as well as showing you its folder path and date last modified. For a
web result, you get to see an actual piece of the website. For a vocabulary
word, you get to see an instant dictionary definition. For a browser, you see

a list of recent bookmarks, so you can jump directly to a website from the
Search menu.

The Search Index