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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On any websites search bar, is there a way to make it recognize special symbols such as the # sign?
I'm looking up flashcards on a website and predictably it ignores the # sign in C#, so my results are all over the place. Is there any kind of escape character voodoo that works with search engines ...
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Windows could not start the Windows Search service on Local Computer
I am trying to turn on Windows indexing service by following one of the answer in this question
I got this error message:
Windows could not start the Windows Search service on Local Computer.
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Manually adding Searchable Words in PDF
Is there a way to add searchable tags/keywords to a PDF document?
I have heard of the OCR option in Adobe Acrobat, but for some reason this program keeps crashing, are there any alternatives?
Can ...
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How to do diacritics insensitive search in Visual Studio Code?
While using local file search or global search in VSCode I want the search, by default, to be diacritics insensitive, that is if I search for ofertă it should always match both ofertă and oferta.
I ...
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Excel SEARCH function not returning expected results
Having trouble with the SEARCH function in Excel 2016. I use it to find "JASN" in an array ("Description" F1:F17) and return the corresponding result ("Result" E1:E17). That works.
However, if "...
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In VS Code, how can I search in both file names and file contents at the same time?
Is there a way to search in the currently opened folder for a certain string not only in file names but also within the files themselves?
I know I can use Ctrl+P to search in file names, or Ctrl+Shift+...
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How to customize/remove Chrome yellow highlight from search result hash bang
So I did a google search, which made me land on this question.
As you can see, if you are using Chrome, some content matching the #targetText=xxx of the hash bang is highlighted:
But in the dev ...
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Solution for local “database” containing huge text and .SQL files
I have a few hundred gigabytes of text data contained within a single directory tree. This data is comprised of both very large text files and a few MySQL database dumps (which for the most part, of ...
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Windows 10 Search Bar shows Uninstalled Programs
I have a problem with the Windows 10 search where it keeps showing old programs after I've uninstalled them. One example is Apple Software Update:
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And when I click or right click on it, ...
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Search for a String and Move 2 Values in that Row to New Sheet
I am looking to create a graph that shows each Area's score total (which is a row's columns D-I summed) vs. the date listed. My data is shown in the picture. What I would like to do is search for ...
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Equivalent to Mac's help search on Windows?
Is there a Windows equivalent (native or utility) that will allow me to search through the active application's menu hierarchy for a command and show me matches as I type? No launchy/Spotlight-like ...
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How can I find photos that are not in an album with Google photos
I use the Photos app from Google (photos.google.com).
When I organize my photos into albums, I often lose track of which photos I have already added to an album and which are still 'unassigned'.
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Windows 10 VM Search
I have a windows 10 OS that I run on VMWare Player. The search in the bottom left does not work, I can click on it but can type into it. The service is running but the event logs say "Unable to start ...
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How to stop Firefox searching Amazon and other "Top Sites"
Today I discovered a Firefox feature that allows you to search within particular sites by prepending the search term with an @:
This seems like an implementation of the similar Chrome behaviour, ...
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Microsoft Word Find (letter paragraph letter) and Replace paragraph with space but leave letters
In Microsoft Word I want to Find (letter paragraph letter) (^$^p^$) and Replace the paragraph with a space but not change the letters.
Example:
Hello^pWorld
Output:
Hello World
Current Output:
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Disable "search-ms:displayname=Search Results" in file/folder location
Windows has a very annoying feature (for me at least).
For example, you have a folder path like this:
D:\folder_1\folder_2\folder_3
when you go to D: disk and search for term folder_3 through search ...
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Windows 10 - Searching for a specific part of a filename within a set interval of characters
Good Day/Evening,
Maybe someone could help, and just maybe this could help someone else. If one observes the example below:
01022015- BLABLABLA
04022018 - BLABLABLAB
02012016 - Blablabla
What I ...
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searching a string in multiple docs and note pad documents
I have multiple files in docx format and notepad .txt files.
I want to search for a particular string like #search string# it might be present in any of the multiple docx or .txt or .rtf files.
Is ...
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Word "Find" search to find sentences with too many words
I would like to find sentences with more than 25 words, as in, more than 25 words between two periods or any ending point of the sort (.?!) while ignoring commas.
Is there any capability that can do ...
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iTunes "Search" error
For the past 24 hours when I type something into the "Search" window on the upper right side of iTunes and hit enter I am getting this message:
"There was a temporary problem completing your request.
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How to reset the search bar location in Outlook
After a sudden shutdown to my computer (electricity off), the Outlook 365 pro 2016 search bar has changed to the top of the window as shown in the photo.
I need to get it back to be next to "read &...
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How can I find pdf and epub files that contain multiple keywords in same page?
I have a big directory which has a lot of pdf and epub ebook files. I want to search that files that contain multiple keywords on the same page.
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Outlook 2010 Search in all mailboxes
At a new workplace I'm working with Office 2010 (sadly :/) I ran into one of those unsolvable user problems. So here is the issue.
A user with 2 shared mailboxes wants to look in all 3 mailboxes he ...
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LibreOffice Calc stop slow search
I have attempted a text search on a large (500 000 row) spreadsheet that has crippled LibreOffice for the last 20 minutes. How can I stop it?
It has interrupted all open documents, not just the one ...
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Windows Explorer exact string search does not work with hyphens
It looks like Explorer search treats quotation marks like Google search's exact match where a search for "foo bar" ignores results like "bar the foo" so you only get results like "the foo bar."
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How to find name of a song from mp3? [closed]
There is a video on YouTube, I like the tune played in the first few seconds, the person who has posted that video has not given details about it, I have recorded it as mp3, I want to find the name ...
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Outlook: save existing search query as "Search Folder"
In Outlook When I already have a search query that is displaying results on screen in the email list pane, how do I save this EXISTING search query as a "Search Folder".
i.e. Without starting again ...
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Solr query for terms closely and frequently used with another term
We are attempting to find terms (actually words) that most frequently appear in some proximity to a given term.
When using facetting like this:
?q=myfield:tree&facet=on&facet.query=tree&...
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How to search a raw disk for pattern and return its location?
How can one search a raw disk for a pattern and return its location?
The disk is not formatted, or at least, it uses a format unknown to Linux, grep and similar tools would not be useful.
A command ...
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Notepad++ Get only words which contains some string from a Text
I would like to get only words which containing specific string in notepad++ result. There are tons of examples for finding word but non oftem showing how to get only those words in result page.
For ...
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How do I add an "At Sign Search" to Firefox 68?
Firefox has a really neat "at-sign search" feature where, for some search engines, if you preface a search with @[engine_tag], the search will take place on that site instead of in the default search ...
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Excel search cannot find specific data in a worksheet, even when data exists
I have text data in two workbooks in Excel. The first problem is that when I search for text in any of the workbooks, the search does not work for some text. So for example, in the first workbook, I ...
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Google search results not showing up (but links are present)
My google search results (On both Chrome and IE) are coming up blank but the search results are there, confirmed by mouse hover.
The urls returned by the search are all accessible by mouse-hover but ...
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Is there a common browser shortcut for jumping to a website’s search bar?
I know Ctrl+L moves focus to the browser address bar, and I use it all the time across browsers. What would be useful though, on sites such as this one, Amazon, or even Google, is a shortcut which ...
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Outlook 2016: Narrow results when searching messages with inline images in body
I was wondering if there's a way to search through messages that have inline images embedded because I need to gather images about a certain subject. I have no way to search using only text because ...
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Search for ISBN's in a column and copy those to a new cell [closed]
I have tried many of the suggestions within SU and Reddit for a solution to my problem, I have a large (7000 row) sheet with book(s) data. Each row is a specific book. Within column (D) it has a ...
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How do I detect corrupt files?
I have many files, MP4, Mp3, Exe and others, which during a backup did not correctly copy to the hard drive for whatever reason, I have checked the file contents with a hex editor to find that many of ...
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How does Thunderbirds attachment search work?
Thunderbird has an advanced email search functionality which can be opened with Ctrl + Shift + F. One of the available search conditions is simply 'Attachment'.
Problem is that I get no results, even ...
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Searching & deleting records in a text/db/spreadsheet file
I received a .txt file with tab-delimited fields. The file contains 65K-plus records.
I want to edit the file, removing some records. Specifically, I want to find all records that contain a ...
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Outlook 2016 presenting "Something went wrong and you search couldn't be completed," but the search is actually completing fine
This problem has been presenting for months, and as far as I can tell is a graphical issue, it's just reporting an error that isn't actually happening.
This is happening when the user is doing a ...
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Outlook search for multiple words in same reply email
I have two words "yellow" and "car". I need to search these words in all emails, but "yellow" and "car" must be in same reply.
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SharePoint: Global search in specific columns
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What I want:
I have a simple List in Sharepoint 2016 where I added the custom text-column Keywords. Now I want to search this column in the global search, like Keywords:Test.
How it already ...
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How to replace every occurrence of [1]-[99] in Microsoft Word 2015?
I am trying to search for any positive integer between 1 and 99
that is inside square brackets, like [1] or [24].
So basically every instance of: open square brackets, a number from 1 to 99, close ...
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What Regular Expression Can I Use To Search And Replace The Following in MS Word?
I have lots of text in Microsoft Word similar to the following:
1 The quick brown 2 fox jumps over 3 the lazy dog.
I need some help to find a regular expression that finds the numbers
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How to search the whole Windows 10 computer with PowerShell for a string?
Regarding:
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McAfee's Rule Identifier 131328 is described in KB82925 on How to identify what rule corresponds to an Adaptive Threat Protection and Threat Intelligence ...
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Is there a way to set a start location for a text search in a browser?
I am doing a text search on a web page. Is there some way I can tell the browser, "Start searching from here", instead of searching from the top?
My present issue is that I am working through many ...
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Outlook: unable to search in subfolders of shared mailboxes
A few days ago, we took our last users off Outlook 2013 client and placed them on Outlook 2016.
After this, they were no longer able to search in the subfolders of multiple shared mailboxes.
Is ...
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Does Windows 10 search/indexing move files?
I was looking for a file in my Downloads folder (i.e. C:\Users\QM\Downloads) on my Win 10 Pro (build 1809) machine. I was unable to find it there even though I was near certain that's where it was.
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Need to Exclude Keyword from ISNUMBER & SEARCH formula
I am trying to exclude the word PPC from these results and am mixing a few items to get it. It returns the correct number for PPC contracts here, but I want it to exclude anything with PPC in cell G3-...
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How can I stop Google Chrome from prioritizing search results over previously visited websites?
The latest version of Google Chrome (74?) seems to have changed the search bar's behavior. It now lists search suggestions before previously visited websites.
I find this annoying and want it to work ...
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