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[njimack]

When using the Search facility of the Board, is there any way of specifying how the results are returned?

At first glance, it looks like they're returned in date order (most recent displayed first), rather than relevance to the keywords I'm searching for.

 

[Von Pookie]

If you search from the actual Search page (http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/search.php), there is an option to specify how the results are sorted. Sorting by relavence to the search terms is not available, but there are options other than date.

 

[njimack]

Thanks Kristy,

I'd always seen that part of the screen but just ignored it. Looking at the sort options, relevancy is an option, as is title which could also be useful.

 

[Richard Schollar]

Neil

I don't know about controlling how they are returned (with specific regard to relevance), but if there is a particular phrase you are looking for, then try enclosing it in quotes:

"Autofilter criteria"

Which should just match occurrences of the pair of words together, and not separately.

I suspect you know about use of the logical AND and OR operators...

 

[Von Pookie]

Thanks Kristy,

I'd always seen that part of the screen but just ignored it. Looking at the sort options, relevancy is an option, as is title which could also be useful.

Ah, nice catch. I didn't see the 'relevancy' in the list there. Sorry about that