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Andrew Silcock
Iron Contributor
Oct 04, 2018

Part word search not displaying results from document library level - But working from home page

Hi all,

 

When searching from the modern homepage, I do not have to type a full word in order for search results to pop up, for example, I can search "Ann" for "Annual Report" and results will appear.

 

However, when doing exactly the same thing from the document library itself, I have to type "Annual" before anything starts to appear and if I carry on typing "Annual R" the results disappear again.

 

To me, this seems like a major flaw in SharePoint search and I hope it is something that I can change at my end to resolve.

 

Does anyone else experience this and does anyone know how to fix this?

 

I am having to teach users not to search from the document library and to go back to the home page to search.

 

Thanks

 

1 Reply

  • Peter Hatton's avatar
    Peter Hatton
    Copper Contributor

    Also am interested in this, it's quite confusing to explain to users why the search on the site home page and the document libraries behave differently.

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