Can I customize "all my files" and exclude folders?

A lot of folders that I don't want to include. Like my music which I always browse through iTunes.

Dawsonj,
I was experiencing the same problem with Microsoft Office results flooding my "All My Files" view – but was able to fix it using redisant's suggestion above, by customizing my Spotlight preferences.
Step-by-step:
Open "System Preferences..." in the Apple menu.
Click the "Spotlight" Icon to open Spotlight Preferences.
Change from the "Search Results" tab to the "Privacy" tab. This pane lets you specify folders that should be excluded from Spotlight search (and also from "All My Files").
Click the "+" button in the lower left to add a new list item.
Navigate to your "Microsoft User Data" folder (by default, this is <user>/Documents/Microsoft User Data) and select to add it to the list of excluded directories. (You can also navigate to the folder in the finder, and then drag the folder directly into the list view.)
That's it!
"All My Files" should be sane again. :-)
Best,
Jason

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