Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 SP2 - KDE 08-05-2008 Manual page 198

3 Select the scope of the search in the Show section of the right panel. To search
4 Press Enter or click the icon to the right of the search field to start the search.
Results are displayed in a window, sorted according to your settings. Click any item to
activate it. To open a folder containing a found file instead of the file itself, click the
name of the folder to the right of the filename. To display more information about an
item, click the icon with the i on the left.
You can change the scope of the search, sort order, or limitation by date at any time by
clicking appropriate item in the panel on the right.
Use Previous results and Next results to move between pages of the result list. The
number of items found is shown in the bottom part of the window.
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of Mars, Venus, or both. To exclude search terms, use a minus symbol (–) in
front of them. For example, Mars -Venus finds all data containing any occur-
rence of Mars but without any occurrence of Venus. To search for an exact phrase,
enclose the phrase in quotes. If you want to include only certain file type in results,
specify the filename extension with ext:. For example, Mars ext:xml finds
xml files containing Mars.
all the indexed content, choose Everything. However, you can limit the search
only to indexed Applications, Contacts, Office documents, instant messenger
Conversations, Images, Media files, Web pages, or File/Path names by clicking
the appropriate item in the panel. You can change the scope before or after the
search is performed.
Change the sort order of results in the Sort By section of the right panel. To sort
results by type, click Type. Sorting by Date, Name, and Relevance is also possible.
You can change the sort order before or after the search is completed.
You can limit the results by date of last modification. To show all results regard-
less of the date of the last modification, click Any Date in the right panel. You
can show items modified today, since yesterday, this week, month, or year by
clicking the appropriate item in the right panel. You can change this before or
after the search is performed.
Results are displayed in the main area of the window.