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It expands the search’s reach to include this window’s subfolders

once again.

Search again in. This handy drop-down menu lists places you’ve
recently searched. Now and then, one of these options can save you

time and fiddling.

Date modified, Kind, Size, Other properties. These are search

filters. They refine your search, letting you limit the results to
certain date ranges, file types, file sizes, and so on.

When you use these menus, you’ll see codes in blue text appear in

the search box—for example, datemodified:last week or
size:medium. If you’re more of a keyboard person than a mouse
person, you could type those codes into the search box yourself;

the result is exactly the same, as described in the next section. In
other words, the options on the Ribbon are nothing more than user-
friendlified, quicker ways of entering the same search codes.

Tip

You can adjust the second part of each code just by clicking it. For example, if you
chose size:small and you really wanted size:medium—or if the size:small query didn’t
produce any results—then click the word small. The pop-up menu of sizes appears
again so you can adjust your selection.

You can use as many of these filters as you want. The more you

click them (or type the corresponding shorthand), the longer the
codes are in the search box. If you want to find medium files
created by Casey last year with the tag Murgatroid project, go right

ahead.

So what do they do? The “Date modified” drop-down menu offers
choices like Today, Yesterday, Last Month, and This Year. “Kind”

is a long list of file types, with choices like Folder, Game, Note,
Picture, and Web History. “Size” offers file-size ranges like Tiny (0