I’ve read some past threads on searching and ended up none the wiser about my specific question. I have a folder of magazine editions - a monthly magazine that ran from the early 1900s to 1976. I want to search for reviews written by a contributor who used the name Discus. If I search the folder for the word Discus I get hits for discuss and discussion, which are much more frequent than the name I am looking for. I thought that if I used Advanced Search I could find the results I want by setting:
All the following are true
Content matches Discus
Character Count is 6
However this produces no results. What am I doing wrong?
Character Count refers to the number of characters in a document.
If “Partial matches while typing” is enabled in the search settings (which it is by default), a * wildcard is assumed at the end of the last search term. That’s why you also get “discuss” and “discussion”.
To find an exact word/term, you need to quote it, i.e. text:"Discus".
(This is all documented in the manual, by the way )
Thanks for your reply. text:“Discus” works reasonably well but still produces some hits on discuss and discussion. However I realise now that removing the asterisk from the search term that DEVONthink automatically enters in the search box works even better.
This depends on if Partial matches while typing is enabled in the search options (magnifying glass). If disabled, the second example would only find Discus.
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