Spotlight has several new features available to those using Yosemite. Here is one of them.
Find and attach documents to emails even if you don’t know where they are stored.
- Open and prepare your email message.
- Open Spotlight and search for your document.
- When you find what you think is the desired document, click on it to double check. The Quick Look column on the right gives you a quick image of the document.
Grab the document and drag it to the message portion of your email and you are done.
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