I believe I used to have the ability to rearrange the search categories shown in Spotlight, but I can't drag to rearrange within System Preferences > Spotlight anymore (El Capitan). Is there some other way to do this?
How to rearrange the order of Spotlight categories
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Best Answer
Apple removed this feature in El Capitan. I searched deeper in spotlight's plist file:
But I can't find any way to re order the entries in this version of OS X.
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