How to search for exact string?

[Jelena_Perfiljeva]

Is there any way to search for the text string exactly as I enter it? Like 'exact search' in the OSS notes?

For example, I'm trying to find the forum posts regarding the Excel 2007 file format XLSX. By XLSX the search finds hundreds of entries, but most of them are not even close. For example, this was one of the top results: /thread/1078918 [original link is broken]

Why is it getting picked up when 'xlsx' doesn't even appear there? We are frequently complaining about the users who don't use search before posting, but, frankly, if it works like this, I can't blame them...

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

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> Why is it getting picked up 
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=> https://forums.sdn.sap.com/search.jspa?threadID=&q=%22Whyisitgettingpicked+up%22&objID=f40&dateRange=all&numResults=15&rankBy=10001

"Why is it getting picked up"

I regularly use this to (re)find threads where I remembered a specific comment or even spelling mistake.

Perhaps a better option in your case would be to use an AND between individual terms.

I generally tend to edit the search string parameters directly, as it seems to cache previous results and do a search within a search. That might be an option for you as well though.

Cheers,

Julius

Edited by: Julius Bussche on Jul 10, 2009 11:38 PM

[Jelena_Perfiljeva · Accepted solution]

The quotation marks, duh... I was trying to enter XLSX and 'XLSX', it hasn't occurred to me to use the quotation marks - too much ABAP, I guess. I was searching for a single item, so AND wasn't an option in this case.

Funny thing though - now it's finding the posts whithout XLSX but with the quotation marks... Oh well, nothing is perfect.

Thanks for the tip!