When is Microsoft going to add and Exact Phrase search to Windows 7?
I find it unbelievable that Windows 7 does not provide an EXACT phrase search capability. I have thousands and thousands of documents on my computer. Using your search engine DOES NOT return an exact phrase match. -- You can say, put it in single quotes, double quotes, or whatever you want, but it DOES NOT work. If you try to enter a phase with two words, you get all documents that contain both words. That IS NOT an exact phrase. THAT is an OR or possibly an AND search. I haven't gone through all my documents to be sure that both words are in the document. My point is that hundreds of documents are returned and when you go into MS Word to look for the phrase, guess what? It can't find it. Both words may be in the document, but they are not together. --- Which in my feeble mind is the definition of an exact phrase search. I have called technical support on several occasions and get the same results. NO ANSWERS! Maybe it will be in a future update. --- Well, how about NOW?
February 13th, 2010 4:30am

Hi Kaos1, It appears as though Windows Search 4.0 does search with an "Exact Phrase" - see here. From the Site: "microsoft windows" - Items containing the exact phrase microsoft windows Are you saying the above search does not work at all? Is there any chance the indexer is messed up somehow? I did a quick test on Windows 7 with some Word documents and did am exact phrase search and it seemed to work for me: Is there any more info you could provide about your problem? Screenshots? Kevin Costain @calwell on Twitter Calwell's Blog Google Profile (Buzz)
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February 14th, 2010 8:18pm

Hi, I'm looking for an exact search, too. What I mean is: E.g., you have two items like OneItem and OneItemSecond and you type into the Windows 7 startmenu's searchbox OneItem, Windows Search returns always both items. Typing "OneItem" returns the same result. What to do if I want to get only OneItem, but not OneItemSecond? Please don't suggest "OneItem" -Second, that's not what I want. migeold.
July 22nd, 2010 4:34pm

Did you ever find a solution, Kaos1? I'm having the same problem. It doesn't matter if I put it in quotations or not. The results include documents with any of the words in the phrase. (in my case I'm trying to find a "phrase" consisting of numbers, like 1-23-630, which is a statute citation I'm trying to find... The hypens might make this more complicated, but I want to be able to do exact phrase anyway.) Thanks.
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August 20th, 2010 8:29pm

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