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Searching - Do I really have to put * for part of a word?
I am struggling to explain to customers why SharePoint search is so tricky to use.
If I am searching for a document called Annual Report, I have to search for "Annual", "Annual Report" or "Annu...
This is still going on. Agreed that it should search for any part of the search string within any part of any searchable data by default. I can see not doing that for performance reasons... but I'd rather wait than not be able to do it at all. The fact that you cannot use a wildcard at the front of the search at all is very disappointing. I am trying to find 123456 in a bunch of files that might be named MN123456 and it can't do it. Seems this would be important enough to enough people for Microsoft to make it work.