New Search Operators in your Documents List
June 29th, 2010 | Published in Google Docs
Have you ever tried looking for a document or spreadsheet from a particular time or from a certain person about a specific topic? Let’s say you’re a rocket scientist and you’re looking for the presentation about “Prototype rockets with lasers” that your manager sent you last year.
Normally, you’d just search for [rockets lasers prototypes]. But, lets face it, you’re a rocket scientist so you get lots of matching results; just about every document you have is about rockets or lasers.
You could narrow the search in the advanced search menu or you can use Search Operators and refine the search directly in the search box:
Normally, you’d just search for [rockets lasers prototypes]. But, lets face it, you’re a rocket scientist so you get lots of matching results; just about every document you have is about rockets or lasers.
You could narrow the search in the advanced search menu or you can use Search Operators and refine the search directly in the search box:
- Quotes for exact phrase matching. Example: [ "match this phrase exactly" ]
- OR to allow either one of several words. Example: [ "rockets" OR "shuttles" ]
- Items without a certain word: [ rocket -man ] will return docs that mention rocket, but not rocket man.
- Items you shared with, or had shared with you: [ from:[email protected] ] or [ to:[email protected] ]
- Starred or Hidden items: [ is:starred ] or [ is:hidden ]
- Type of doc: [ type:{document, spreadsheet, presentation} ]
- Items edited before (or after) a certain day: [ before:YYYY-MM-DD, after:YYYY-MM-DD ]
- Items owned by Ted: [ owner:[email protected] ]
- Items with “rocket” in the title: [ title:rocket ]; [ subject:rocket ] does the same thing