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Essential SharePoint
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Essential SharePoint

by Jeff Webb
May 2005
Beginner
336 pages
10h 14m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Searching for Documents

If searching is enabled for your SharePoint server, a Search box appears in the upper-right corner of each home page, as shown in Figure 6-19. See Chapter 2 for information on enabling searching if that box does not appear.

Searching a site

Figure 6-19. Searching a site

SharePoint searches the current site and displays the documents and lists that contain that term. The search can look inside of Office documents and other file types that implement search filters for Microsoft SQL Server 2000. SQL includes the filters for Word and Excel documents, but other document types, such as Adobe PDF files, must be installed separately.

Search excludes these types of list fields:

  • Nontext fields

  • Attachments

  • Hidden fields or lists

  • Surveys

  • Built-in Office document properties such as Author and Keywords

Search also doesn't support expressions formed with operators such as AND, +, or OR. Using more than one term returns all documents that include either term, so the searching really works best when used with a unique term such as a customer's last name, an invoice number, or some unusual word you know was used in the document, such as "Hazelnootpasta."

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