all types field, more subitems

[CompSystems]

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In the Name & Location tab, all types chooser, please add subitems (the most important)

...
Office files
\ _word
\ _excel
\ _power point
\ _others ...
Vector files
\ _pdf
\ _ps
\ _...
Iamge files
\ _png
\ _jpg
\ _...

Good idea?

[bdeshi]

Good idea?

No.

Because there can be practically unlimited extensions under each category.
Enter the extensions you want to find in the Name box when you want to find them.
e.g,

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Name: *.pdf;*.docx;*.xlsx

[admin]

BTW, I plan to add "Files" and "Folders" to that list. People tend to look there for this... (and I admit it's not very intuitive that being a Directory is a "File Attribute" in Windows).

[CompSystems]

Good idea?

No.

Because there can be practically unlimited extensions under each category.
e.g,

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Name: *.pdf;*.docx;*.xlsx

If there can be many subcategories, at least put the most common.

> Enter the extensions you want to find in the Name box when you want to find them.
The idea is not to type extensions in the search field, but to select them from the submenus

[yusef88]

you can use catalog to add your own categories

[bdeshi]

If there can be many subcategories, at least put the most common.

And who decides which extensions are the most common?
Follow yusef's suggestion. That may just be perfect for your case.

And regardless of whether Don does this or not, I'm firmly against the idea. Whenever a menu has upwards of one (or more!) screenful of items -- which a list of file extensions is sure to have -- that's itself very good reason the menu should not exist at all.

[admin]

BTW, I plan to add "Files" and "Folders" to that list. People tend to look there for this... (and I admit it's not very intuitive that being a Directory is a "File Attribute" in Windows).

Well, this was not so brilliant. Everything will stay as it is now.

There is always the switches for those who can't handle "file attributes":

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/f = Find only files, not folders. 
/d = Find only folders, not files.