how do you find */ or !! in the manual
Look in the PBP manual chapter 4 if you are using pre PBP3, chapter 3 if you are using PBP3. It does a good job of explaining it.

Oh, meant to ask, ive seen notations that say you can use several SPI devices on 1 PIC, would you tie all the Data lines together and then just use one I/O for each chip select? so 4 temp chips would use 4 I/O (chip selects) but only 1 clock and serial data pins?
You can share everything except the data line.