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Saturday, March 09, 2013

Power search in Google docs


Try these search tips. I love google drive - No filing and powerful search tools. Steve

From: google.com

Combine your search phrase with predefined search operators.

  1. Type the search operator (see table below for some of our most popular).
  2. Enter a search phrase directly after the operator and press Enter on your keyboard or click the search button.
OperatorDefinitionExample
“ ” QuotesTo find documents that contain that exact phrase.“match this phrase exactly”
ORTo find documents with at least one of the words.tacos OR nachos
- HyphenDocuments that don’t have a particular word. So if you want docs that mention salsa, but not dancing use...salsa -dancing
from:Documents shared from someonefrom:bob@gmail.com
to:Documents shared to someoneto:bob@gmail.com
is:starredItems that you have marked with a star.is:starred
type:Search by the type of document. This covers: document, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, image, video, image_or_video, pdf, and textdoc.type:spreadsheet
before:YYYY-MM-DD after:YYYY-MM-DDFind items that were edited before or after a certain day.before:2010-12-01
owner:Search according to who owns the item. Searching by owner works best with owner:email address.owner:frank@emailaddress.com
title:Search by the item’s titletitle:"Conference 2010"