How to Show Spotlight Results in Finder
You probably know that you can quickly search / locate anything on your harddrive via Mac OS X's Spotlight, simply by clicking Command (⌘) + Spacebar. As quickly as you can type in your search terms, Spotlight lists all relevant files, emails, contacts, images, movies, calendars, and applications. Best of all, the content of all such items is constantly indexed and updated, so your search results include what appears inside a file or document, and not just its title.
Sometimes, you may want to show the selected search result item in the Finder. By simply clicking Command (⌘) and your desired entry in Spotlight's drop-down search result list, a new Finder window will open to the folder containing the item you selected. This method apparently will not work with some items, such as iCal events, Mail messages, and bookmarks, but it seems to work just fine for everything else.
Source: "Show Spotlight Results in Finder" by Rob Griffiths, posted at Mac OS X Hints Weblog.
