{"id":338,"date":"2007-07-26T21:58:57","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T02:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/07\/26\/efficiency-tip-93-vista-search\/"},"modified":"2015-05-14T09:12:27","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T14:12:27","slug":"efficiency-tip-93-vista-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/07\/26\/efficiency-tip-93-vista-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Efficiency Tip #93 &#8211; Vista Search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" width=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/191\/505393485_a72cdeb5b3_m.jpg\" height=\"180\" style=\"width: 240px; height: 180px\" \/>The new Vista Start button has a great search tool built right in.\u00a0 Now you can press the Windows key and type the first couple of letters of the program or document you want to open.\u00a0 Vista\u00a0does more than\u00a0show the first item in the long list in the Start Menu.\u00a0 It\u00a0sorts the matches\u00a0so that the most used items are listed first.<\/p>\n<p>When I press the Windows key and then type &#8220;wo&#8221;, I get Word because I use that program often.\u00a0 &#8220;ex&#8221; takes me to Excel and &#8220;po&#8221; brings up PowerPoint.\u00a0 If I&#8217;m looking for a recently used\u00a0spreadsheet, I can type &#8220;xls&#8221; and all my spreadsheets are listed, with the most recently opened\u00a0file at the top.\u00a0 This works for any type of file: doc, ppt, txt, jpg&#8230; any file extension.<\/p>\n<p>Over time,\u00a0your Vista search tool will get better at finding what you want quickly.\u00a0 I use it to open everything in the Start menu.<\/p>\n<p>TSPY=3.60<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Vista Start button has a great search tool built right in.\u00a0 Now you can press the Windows key and type the first couple of letters of the program or document you want to open.\u00a0 Vista\u00a0does more than\u00a0show the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/07\/26\/efficiency-tip-93-vista-search\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[336,338],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edtech","category-efficiency","tag-edtech","tag-efficiency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1422,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/1422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}