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Allow searching for all words in the search string (or maybe it's possible)

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I often want to do searching on "Word1 AND word2 AND word3". The current search engine doesn't seem to allow this - all I get is result which contain any of the words, not all of them.

Is there a way of doing this? If not, can we have one please? And if so, what about a "search help" button?

Peter
- Edited by ptoye Thursday, July 10, 2014 8:21 PM
Thursday, July 10, 2014 8:21 PM

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Hi,

There is currently no way to search using AND. The default is OR and you can also search by exact phrase by enclosing your query in quotes (this is very new functionality).

There's currently a thread going here with many suggestions for improvements to the search tool, you may want to add your voice there as well:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/9cf8ad4b-5111-4f84-9809-99cd8f1b7152/make-the-forum-search-tool-useful?forum=suggest
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- Marked as answer by ptoye Thursday, July 10, 2014 9:04 PM
Thursday, July 10, 2014 8:24 PM

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Hi,

There is currently no way to search using AND. The default is OR and you can also search by exact phrase by enclosing your query in quotes (this is very new functionality).

There's currently a thread going here with many suggestions for improvements to the search tool, you may want to add your voice there as well:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/9cf8ad4b-5111-4f84-9809-99cd8f1b7152/make-the-forum-search-tool-useful?forum=suggest
Don't retire TechNet! - (Don't give up yet - 12,950+ strong and growing)
- Marked as answer by ptoye Thursday, July 10, 2014 9:04 PM
Thursday, July 10, 2014 8:24 PM
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Thanks. Have done so.
Peter

Thursday, July 10, 2014 9:05 PM