Smart Folders - None/Any/All tests missing?

I see that some of the 'canned' smart folders have the ability to say -
'None/Any/All of the following are true'
which is good and allows the standard 'Today' to exclude folders. However there seems to be nowhere in the Smart Folder setup GUI where mortals can generate these tests. I've clicked on 'Other' when looking for a test and there appears to be nothing obvious that might generate a set of nested tests.
Am I missing something?
Is this something that's died and the canned smart folders are essentially 'legacy'?
Or is there some magic flag to turn on in com.apple.finder.plist to allow me to do this?

You need the secret keyboard and mouse combo decoder ring....
No, really, you do! When you bring up the Find window, notice that at the end of the criteria line there are the little bitty + and - buttons, to get the boolean options you hold the Option key and click on the appropriate button.
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