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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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I have a Windows 11 Pro PC on the network, that lost capability to search a network share. One of my users can't search for files on the network share. So here what I have done: Rebuild Search Index ...
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When I open Firefox, the New Tab page has a search box, which says "Search the web". But if I create a fresh Firefox profile, it looks different. The New Tab page has a box that says "...
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So, I have a support client who is experiencing the following in Windows 11: Let's say we have a folder with a file in it named "1234.doc". If the user searches for "12", the file ...
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My document is a text based PDF, nothing scanned. I copy a word from the document to the search box, and nothing is found. I'm sure this is some configuration issue How can I make search work?
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Currently, Firefox tries to interpret any input in the address bar as a URL, unless the input contains a space character, then the input is interpreted as a search query. I'd like to change this ...
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I have two LibreOffice documents. The contents of /home/user/foo1.odt are: foo bar The contents of /home/user/foo2.odt are: foo 'bar Now, using the loook tool (ver. 0.8.6) with a search phrase of ...
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Normally, I can press the Windows button, type the name of the program I want to start, press enter and the program starts. But for some reason I cannot focus the search bar anymore. Instead the focus ...
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How do I search the contents of an email for keywords? [Conversation]:="Search term" That will only bring up emails with "Search term" in subject line. I need to find emails that ...
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When using the "Find in Page" (Ctrl+F) feature in Google Chrome, it seems it's only capable of finding text that is immediately visible. This is problematic when there is a lot of text ...
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I am trying to find some Excel files that have text in them, say LON, NON in a cell. In Windows Explorer, I go to the folder with the files, and do a search: content:"LON, NON" I start ...
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In a certain directory I have a lot of symlinks created via mklink to files located on a different drive. These are "file" symlinks, not directory ones. But when I open the directory in ...
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Suppose I'm editing /path/to/a.txt in VSCode. How do I quickly search for the name of a file that lives in /path/to/ by typing with autocompletion?
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Using Thunderbird beta current version, I can search a folder like Inbox or Sent and get results, but searching Local Folders for anything at all just shows the search window with Stop button in upper ...
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I recently tried using googler for CLI search. I followed proper steps ,installation is fine. But somehow googler is not generating results. I have given entire work flow of installation and path ...
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If A1 contains accepted or rejected or goodwill then A2 = today's date. I have tried to use IF function but I can not combine that the cell can contain 3 different words to search to get today's date.
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