Questions tagged [search]
Search refers to the ability of finding any number of items of information with specified properties among a collection of items sharing the same type of properties.
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How do I stop my Opera browser from searching from the address bar?
I'm trying to get to individual units in my home network by their Host Name and not IP Address. But every time I try, Opera searches the internet instead of just resolving the Host Name or telling me ...
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Limit search results to current folder
In WIN 10 Outlook O365 - When running a search in the "Current Folder" the search returns "Showing results from all folders. No results found in current folder ". How can I limit ...
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Notepad++ Search for text between tags more then 20 characters
To find tags and replace text between tags in Notepad++, I do use the following example:
(?<=<barcode>)(.*)(?=</barcode>)
I was wondering if it is possible to search between certain ...
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How do I change part of a word with wildcards, Microsoft Word
I'm converting a timecode and need to replace a colon with a full stop -
00:00:00:000 needs to become 00:00:00.000
I've not used Wildcards before, but gave it ago with no success. What would I have to ...
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How to add "Advanced Search with adobe acrobat" command to right click of context menu?
Please How to add "Advanced Search with adobe acrobat" command to right click of context menu? for current folder because selecting the target folder inside the adobe acrobat from (Edit ----&...
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Find how many sets of numbers within a range exist
I have a column of 1 million numbers that were generated randomly. They range from 1 - 1000, and each have two decimal points. There are duplicates of numbers obviously.
I would like to create a ...
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Changing or disabling Windows Search (Win + S) shortcut
Is there any way to change this shortcut? I use Crop Screenshot (Win+ Shift+S) quite often, but sometimes I do it pretty fast and it interferes with Win+S, which brings up the search bar. There is an ...
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"Advanced" VLOOKUP range
I am having some problems with the problem as stated:
I have a worksheet containing column A with different well names. In a second and third column, there are top and bottom depths of a geological ...
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How do I find all files in subfolders that are missing a specific property?
On my main Windows 10 machine, I take a lot of video game screenshots with Steam. Within Steam's screenshot folder (Steam\userdata\<user_id>\760\remote), it creates a new folder for every game, ...
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Notepad++ how to ignore a word in lines on notepad++ using "find in files"
Helly everyone,
I am struggling to find out how to exclude a word in a line of text in notepad++
I am using the "find in files" option to search through many large log files.
My search ...
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Google Search Autofill/complete Disable
Similar question here
When typing in Google Search Bar (Chrome or google.com) the search bar will autocomplete based on previous searches (example below). I would like to disable this.
For example:
I ...
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Chrome suggests/predicts search results in the omnibox while incognito
I've recently noticed that Chrome will sometimes predict and offer autocomplete suggestions for search results (as opposed to previously visited sites or bookmarked sites) in the omnibox while it is ...
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Match Entire String in MS Word Search
I want to return a citation string using wild card search in MS Word. The citations are superscript, so it is easy to isolate them from other text. The search requirements are:
Numbers can be any ...
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Get search results in a different language locale
Using Google Chrome with the search term DAO tutorial C#. Have tested both Google Search and DuckDuckGo.
In both cases one of the top results is Creating a Data Access Layer (C#) which contains the ...
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When does albert launcher update its index?
I am enjoying using the Albert Launcher on Wasta Linux (Ubuntu 18.04 with Cinnamon desktop manager). It usually works well, but sometimes doesn't find files I am looking for.
In my experience, search ...
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Win 10 search box in explorer: how to restrict search to only filenames
When I search for a keyword "foo" by typing it in the Windows 10 File Explorer search box (top right corner) in a folder it seems to search (correct me if I am wrong please!) within ...
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Search box grayed out in Windows explorer
A long time ago, I ran some scripts from the web to increase the privacy of my Windows 10 installation. Among other things it disabled Cortana. Except for multiple error messages in the event viewer ...
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Find hidden files in non-hidden directories
Consider following directory structure:
$ find m
m
m/f.sh
m/.a
I want to find hidden files in non-hidden directories with:
find . -not -path "*/.*" -and -name "*.*"
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./m/f.sh
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Make zsh history search behave like bash reverse-i-search
In bash, pressing [CTRL]+[r] will open the reverse-i-search prompt.
How can I search the zsh history in a similar way?
Note: The search query will hit the middle of the full command only, instead of ...
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How to change any multi-media key from a keyboard behavior to open a different app than the default?
Based on How can I run another app when pressing the calculator key on my keyboard?
I want to know how can I achieve the same thing but for any other key.
Say I want to make the "Search" ...
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How to show more than 4 applications matching a search string in the Windows Start menu (Windows 7)?
In Win7, how can you show more than 4 apps matching a search string entered into the Start menu's "Search programs and files" input field when Control Panel items also match the search ...
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Can't remove "maps.apps.goo.gl" suggestion from address bar suggestion
Every time I type maps. I expect to receive the suggestion maps.google.com, which I can either follow or I can push tab and enter my search term. However, this suggestion is always at the top:
If I ...
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Win10 indexed content search doesn't do its job
After doing all I could to avoid it, I moved from Win7 to Win10. I have a few thousands docs and pdfs (less than 50GB), and Windows search used to work within milliseconds. Not anymore. Although file ...
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I Have No Ability to Search at All via Chrome....How Do I "Reinstall" Google?
I'm on an iMac running OSMohave 10.14.16. Two days ago, I downloaded a Cyber Search virus and used Malwarebytes to clean things up. Since then, I can no longer use the address bar to search for ...
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Windows 10 Start Menu search not working
My automatic Windows updates kept failing, so I installed the latest Windows 10 update from Microsoft (in-place upgrade). But now, my Start Menu search doesn't work at all, and my search inside an ...
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Windows search for a given directory containing a given file
So, I have an old project, let's call it my_project.
Now, I would like to work on it again, but I find that the file index.html is missing.
I have extensive backups, including k:\backups\localhost\...
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What patterns can be used in Thunar's Select By Pattern?
In Thunar, Select By Pattern - the option brought up by ctrl+s - lets you search through the files in a directory by patterns. For example, searching "?.jpg" will select all jpgs. What is ...
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Searching popular sites in chrome from address bar not working
I recently reinstalled Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge. In both of these browsers I used to have a option to search popular sites like youtube/google maps/drive/superuser etc. in address bar.
What I ...
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Mac Finder saved search: how to exclude one file type?
I have a saved search for recently modified files because I wasn't satisfied with the Recents folder in macOS Mojave. Lately it has been getting flooded by .tdb files so I would like to exclude them. ...
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Windows cannot search my external hard drive whilst it is indexing it
Windows cannot search my external hard drive whilst it is indexing it. If I want my hard drive to be indexed on Windows, I can only search it after it has been indexed.
I don't want to remove my ...
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Multiple Criteria with IF, ISNUMBER, SEARCH
I've got a sheet with a list of lenders and I'd like to be able to quickly look up specific companies that meet one or more criteria. I have an IF(ISNUMBER(Search function that works pretty well for ...
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Search the Text Content of Pages Linked from Current Page
This is the exact tool I am looking for: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/search-search-content-linked-current-web-page/ but it appears to no longer exist, and I can't find anything else like it.
In ...
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In RecentX, do tags disappear after a file is moved?
I saw the program RecentX suggested in https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/73979/i-would-like-to-tag-documents-notes-and-search-tags-with-logical-and-and-or/76058#76058 So I tried it out....
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How can I fuzzy search a pdf file
I'd like to look for textual information in pdf files where words are not necessarily linked together. For example, I'd like to input "Super" and "question" and have the following ...
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Firefox text search - How to disable automatic wrap-around when reaching the end of a document
While performing a text search on text-heavy pages, after reaching the last result and pressing F3, Firefox automatically continues from the top with only a minor indication next to the search text ...
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Change color of ctrl + f search results in chromium
i'm looking for any way to change the yellowish stock color of ctrl + f search results in chromium based browser (opera in my case). I tried to research this topic, but i didn't find any way to do ...
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Multi-criteria search and returning multiple values using array functions
I am working on transportation of some employees whose route detail is given in blue region. Login means towards office and logout towards home. Same route ID means that those employees are traveling ...
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File metadata ignored for some files in search in Windows 7
Using Windows 7. It seems like the metadata of some files is being ignored, although the metadata of most files is found just fine. (These problematic files can be found quite easily by file name.)
I ...
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How to do a wildcard search inside a pdf file using adobe acrobat DC or foxit
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Im trying to find historic dates(1974,1963 etc) in a pdf file which are located randomly in the pdf file,using Adobe Acrobat DC or Foxit pdf veiwer
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"command not found but can be installed with ..." prompt in Linux Mint?
I'm running Linux Mint on a VM. I've previously worked on Ubuntu 20.04 WSL and I liked the feature where if you didn't have a program installed but if that existed in the repository, you would be ...
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Degree to which Outlook Online supports search phrase syntax
I'm very clumsy at using GUIs, so I try to avoid the Outlook Advanced Search GUI. I recently found the following salvations:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/learn-to-narrow-your-search-...
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Launch Chrome Keyword search via command line
I would like to launch Chrome and send a string to a specified search engine.
In Chrome, I have a number of different search engines, each having a "keyword" such that, with chrome open, I ...
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Why in macOS Firefox can not use `cmd + F` to search text?
I can use Command + F to search text in Chrome, but I can not use this way in macOS Firefox.
my firefox version is: 79.0(64 bit)
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Get rid of Outlook search popup?
Every time I open Outlook, I get the popup in the screenshot below. I've clicked a mixture of Not now and Next - both of which close the popup until next time I open outlook. (Should clicking Next ...
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Blind spots in Windows 7 search
Despite running the indexer for 48 hours, Windows 7 Search still ignores many files, especially those added within the last two weeks. I have 644,000 indexed items. I'm not sure whether I should ...
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How to create a shortcut to search Google Scholar from the address bar in Firefox?
Just want to create open-search queries to search instantly from the search bar for google scholar. This is easy with Brave and Chrome, using Open Search queries. This has been possible with FireFox ...
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Windows 10 File Explorer Quick Search bar will not allow typing - Usual fixes not working
I have a user account that will not allow any input in the Explorer Quick search bar. Clicking on the bar and typing produces no results. Occasionally pressing Control-F then typing will show only the ...
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Why has Firefox stopped searching from the search bar?
I'm on Firefox 78.0.2 (64-bit) running on Win10. In Firefox, I've got DuckDuckGo as my default search engine.
I used to hit <Ctrl>-T to open a new tab, type a search phrase in the address bar, ...
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Adobe Acrobat Reader DC: strange search results
Adobe Acrobat Reader DC keeps producing strange search results.
A few examples:
Is it a bug?
Host OS: Windows 10.
Software version: 2020.009.20067.
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Windows 10 Search is not working, can't even type the query
My problem is that Windows' Start menu search isn't working at all, when I press Start then start typing, nothing happens, the same thing also happen in taskbar search box and search icon. Cortana ...
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