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Sharepoint Online - Searching for terms including special characters
I have a specific search term, that includes a special character (&) at the end. When I try to search this on Sharepoint online, it's not picking this up. As an example, I would like to search fo...
SharePoint Online’s search engine simply doesn’t index “&” (or most other punctuation) as part of words—so no matter how you quote or escape it, the KQL parser will strip it out and match on “word” only. Unfortunately, there is no out-of-the-box way to get the UI search to return only items containing the literal string “word&”.