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MS Office File Search Not Working
When I "search for a file" under the open command in MS Office, the file search returns everything but the file I'm looking for. I have to type in the entire file name in order to be able to click on the file I want to open, rather than writing part of the name and having the most relevant result stay at the top.
For instance, if I start typing a file name like "Spokane Receipts", typing in the beginning of SPOK will start to return the correct result. When I got to click on the file, the search changes to all types of files that are named nothing similar. Sometimes the correct file will be found under (show more results), but often its not. It won't reappear until I type out the entire file name. It doesn't make any sense, why would MS Office file search return results from the data inside of files rather then the file name first? Is there a way to correct this search process? I don't want things tangentially related to the word I'm typing, I'm looking only for the file name.
Thanks!
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I thought related to the areas:
- Windows Search integration: Office file open dialog uses the same backend as Windows Search
- Default behavior: Search indexes both file names and file contents. For Office documents, the IFilter components extract text inside the file, which can cause unrelated matches to appear
- Name issue: When typing only part of a file name, the search algorithm may rank content matches higher than filename matches
