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How to search in SharePoint
Looking to get the most out of your everyday SharePoint searches? Look no further. This infographic covers all you would ever need to know to search as smartly as possible, garnering you the best results you can get.
Share with your colleagues so they can get better search results... and maybe think before they complain about never getting the right hits. :)
The full infographic is available http://icansharepoint.com/infographic-search-sharepoint/, and is much more detailed than the preview below: http://www.linkedin.com/redir/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Ficansharepoint%2Ecom%2Finfographic-search-sharepoint%2F&urlhash=rkm4&_t=tracking_anet
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- Gregory FrickIron Contributor
The folks at icansharepoint have done a nice job creating those infographics! Kudos
- Kevin_HoytIron Contributor
What if the author's name is "Elizabeth" but I don't know if she goes by "Elizabeth" or "Liz"? Since SharePoint doesn't support suffix searching like "*liz" how do I find the document? Using the OR keyword works here but I'm just expanding on the example above. In the case of a list where the title contains names of software I can't come up with every "OR" variation I'm looking for (e.g ZIP, WinZip, 7-Zip, ... ,???Zip).
- DeletedShort answer: this isn't a strong search attribute because of the engine limitation. Pick another attribute to search on, or be prepared to scroll through hits related to all Liz's and Elizabeth's. I don't think you have a good solution either way, really.
- Antony TaylorIron ContributorThis is a Great infographic!
- Chris GullicksenIron ContributorThese are great! Thank you.
- DeletedMore infographics below. Document libraries, sharing externally in SharePoint Online, and more. http://icansharepoint.com/category/infographics/
- Deleted
Thank you Deleted for posting great stuff!
Did you already update the file types ;-)