How to search for a phrase?

Hairy Scot

Hairy Scot

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How does one narrow down searches in the forums?

There seems to be no way of finding a specific phrase. I have tried single quotes, double quotes, '+' signs, all to no avail.

Any info would be appreciated.
 

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Hairy Scot said:
How does one narrow down searches in the forums?

There seems to be no way of finding a specific phrase. I have tried single quotes, double quotes, '+' signs, all to no avail.

Any info would be appreciated.
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Hallo Hairy Scot, when you select search have you tried the advanced search option (i dont think it is available if your not logged in)
I hope this is of some help :)
 

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Yes, as Mitchell suggested, Advanced Search is definitely the way to search a phrase. And, put the search terms in quotes so that all of the words will be searched together.
 

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mitchell said:
Hallo Hairy Scot, when you select search have you tried the advanced search option (i dont think it is available if your not logged in)
I hope this is of some help :)
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Imperfect1 said:
Yes, as Mitchell suggested, Advanced Search is definitely the way to search a phrase. And, put the search terms in quotes so that all of the words will be searched together.
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Unfortunately that does not work. It does return items containing the phrase but also returns items containing any of the words in the phrase.

I have however found that using Google with the "site:" option works:-

"search for a phrase" site:vistax64.com
 

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Imperfect1 said:
Yes, as Mitchell suggested, Advanced Search is definitely the way to search a phrase. And, put the search terms in quotes so that all of the words will be searched together.
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Unfortunately that does not work. It does return items containing the phrase but also returns items containing any of the words in the phrase. [/QUOTE]

It works perfectly for me. . . Are you in Advanced Search, and did you put your phrase in quotes?
 

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Yes, I am in advanced search, and yes I have put the phrase in quotes (tried both single and double quotes - same result).

It does find a post with the phrase, but also returns posts containing all of the words regardless of position which defeats the object of limiting the search.


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As I said, Google with the site option works just fine, so this is not train smash.
 

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