Copyright Goodheart-Willcox Co., Inc. Chapter 4 File Management 151 to search in the navigation pane. The default text in the search box refl ects what is selected. For example, if the Desktop branch is selected in the navigation pane, the default text in the search box is Search Desktop. Next, click in the search box and enter the name of the fi le or folder for which to look. If the entire name is not known, a partial name can be entered. When the [Enter] key is pressed, the search begins. A green bar slides across the address bar to indicate the search progress. Every fi le found matching the search criteria will be displayed in the fi le list. Scroll through the list to locate the correct fi le or folder. Sometimes the list of fi les found is longer than a user wants to sift through. Suppose a user was hunting for a picture fi le and simply entered pictures in the search box. Many unwanted fi les would be suggested. Narrowing the search criteria will speed up locating the fi le. Wildcards can be used in the search box to represent unknown characters. An asterisk (*) represents one or more characters in a fi le name. A question mark (?) represents just one character. For example, to fi nd all of the boiling lab fi les, enter boiling*. To fi nd the boiling lab fi les that end in 1, enter boilinglab?1. This will return the fi les boilinglab01 and boilinglab11. However, the fi le boilinglab111 will not be returned because there is an extra character and the ? wildcard allows for one character. It is possible to search for only fi les of a certain type by entering the asterisk wildcard and the fi le name extension. For example, to locate all JPEG images, enter *.jpg. This method can be combined with part of the fi le name to limit the search by fi le type. For example, to locate all boiling lab fi les that are in Excel format, enter boiling*.xlsx or boilinglab*.xlsx. Searching Inside Files By default, Windows File Explorer searches inside certain fi le types. During a search, Windows not only looks for fi le and folder names that meet the search criteria, but also looks at the content of these fi les. For example, the DOC and DOCx fi le types are by default set to have the content of the fi le searched. If a search is conducted with the phrase boiling, the results would include not only the fi les BoilingLab01.xlsx and BoilingLab02.xlsx, but also the fi le Results.docx if the word boiling is contained in that document. Windows can be told to search the content of all fi le types. This may be useful, but it may also increase the amount of time it takes to conduct a search. In Windows 10 and Windows 8, click the Options button on the right-hand side of the View tab in the ribbon of File Explorer. In Windows 7, click Folder options… in the Tools pull-down menu of Windows Explorer. In the Folder Options dialog box that is displayed, click the Search tab, as shown in Figure 4-10. In Windows 10 and Windows 8, check the Always search file names and contents check box. In Windows 7, click the Always search file names and contents radio button. Click the OK button to apply the setting and close the dialog box. FYI FYI A fi le search will take less time if the search is the content of a specifi c folder rather than an entire drive. FYI FYI Instead of setting Windows to search the content of all fi le types, it is possible to add specifi c fi le types to the list of fi les whose content will be searched using the Indexing Options link in the Control Panel window.