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Let's say that I'm looking for a file that I know has the word "resume" contained in the file name. You see above that I have entered that name in the "Named" field.

"Wait a minute!" you say, "I don't see any wild cards!" Earlier I mentioned that you don't always have to use wild cards. I know, in this case, that the file I am searching for has the word "resume" in the file name, but I don't know where in the file name. If I search using this criteria, the computer could bring up Resume.doc, myresume.doc, myresumeforwork.doc, resume.wps, etc. The computer will hunt for the letters/phrase you specify. If I knew the file I was looking for started with "resume", I would enter resume*.* in the "Named" field. In that case, the computer would not find files such as myresume.doc or myresumeforwork.doc because it does not start with "resume". Hopefully that clears things up.

Move on to find out what the other boxes/fields do!