Apple iPad iOS 4.2 - Manual (Page 42)

Go to Spotlight: On the main page of the Home screen, flick right or press the
Home button. On the Spotlight page, you can press the Home button to return to
the main Home screen.
Search iPad: On the Spotlight page, enter text in the Search field. Search results
appear automatically as you type. Tap Search to dismiss the keyboard and see more of
the results.
Tap an item in the results list to open it. Icons to the left of the search results let you
know which app the results are from.
At the top of the list, iPad shows your top hits based on previous searches. At the
bottom of the list, the search results also include options to search the web or
search Wikipedia.
App What’s searched
Contacts First, last, and company names
Mail To, From, and Subject fields of all accounts
(the text of messages isn’t searched)
Calendar Event titles, invitees, and locations
iPod Music (names of songs, artists, and albums) and
the titles of podcasts and audiobooks
Notes Text of notes
Spotlight also searches the names of built-in and installed apps on iPad. If you have a
lot of apps, you can use Spotlight to locate and open them.
Open an app from Spotlight: Enter the app name, then tap to open the app.
You can choose which apps are searched and the order in which they’re searched.
In Settings, choose General > Spotlight Search.
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