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Searching in SharePoint 2010 Cheat Sheet (DRAFT) by

Tips and Tricks for Searching Effectively in SharePoint 2010

This is a draft cheat sheet. It is a work in progress and is not finished yet.
 

Boolean Operators

Operator
Descri­ption
AND
Search for Cats AND Dogs, results are Cats as one result and Dogs as one results instead of "Cats and Dogs" as one result.
NOT
Search for Cats NOT Dogs, results are for Cats only.
OR
Search for Cats OR Dogs, results will be returned for Cats, results will be returned for Dogs. Results will be mixed.
NEAR
Search for NEAR Cats, results will return items above or below Cats items, not preserving the order of items.
ONEAR
Search for NEAR Cats, results will return items above or below Cats items, results are in order.
WORDS
Search for Cats, results returned show synonyms such as Felines.
* (Wildcard)
Search for Ca*, results will return any items starting with "­Ca".
These are known as "­Pro­perty Restri­cti­ons­".

Property Operators

:
Defines a property
Author: John Smith
=
Defines an absolute property
Author= John Smith
<
Numerical refiner: Less than
<1/­2/2013
>
Numerical refiner: Greater than
>1/­2/2013
<=
Numerical refiner: Less than or equal to
<=1­/2/2013
>=
Numerical refiner: Greater than or equal to
>=1­/2/2013
<>
Numerical refiner returns everything EXCEPT value
<1/­2/2­013>
" "
Returns results with exact phrase
"John Smith"
You can use these Property Operators to refine your searching from the Get-Go!