Spotlight and column view playing together?

Hello everyone,
I'm not sure if I'm in the wrong forum or not, but when searching from the finder window, is there a way to show the results in Column view? This would be most helpful for searching for files such as music files that I'd like to preview upon finding.
Thanks, in advance,
Brian Armstrong

Brian
I think you'd agree that this is the whole point. Files are scattered all over your hard drive and possibly external drives as well.
You want to see them all as an intelligible list that you can quickly run down checking them all, in each case seeing where they are in case you want to locate them.
That is what any logical-.minded person would want, and that is how FindFile works in Panther.
You can get a similar result in Tiger if you adopt EasyFind as your default search tool.
Tiger is gravely handicapped, but it delights people who are more interested in how computers work, than in the work the rest of us actually DO with computers.

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