How to use finder to find folder by name

Hi Roger.

First, thanks for your detailed response, the most helpful so far.

Second, somehow the bulletin-board software here is not giving me the option of rating your answer as "this helped me." Any ideas on how I can do that?

Finally, when I click the spotlight icon in the menu bar, the drop-down screen doesn't look like the one in your post. It looks like the one in this message. Any ideas as to how I can get the spotlight screen you have?

--John

Thanks guys. The problem I'm having is that the search returns every file that has the search term(s) in the file contents, but not the file name. So for example, if I search for "Fine Homebuilding," the search returns no files that have that term in the file name...but hundreds of pdf files that have that term in the file contents.

This is why, for what it's worth, I included the comparison with how it's done in Windows, in case anyone here is familiar with that system and could tell me how to get the Apple OS to do the same type of search. In the Windows OS, there are separate dialog boxes for searching file and folder names vs searching the contents of files. There doesn't seem to be the capability to search file names only (or at all) in the Apple OS.

Thanks in advance for any additional help you can give me.

Thanks Roger!

seventy one wrote:

You get 2 gold star 'helps' and 1 green star 'solved'. That's your ration.

Thanks, that was also helpful. Too bad we're arbitrarily limited to two "helps," but c'est la vie.