Can't find text in a URL?

D

Dave

If I search in my OneNote notebook I can't find a text string that is in a
URL that is part of my notes. The URL displays the same text as the actual
URL, is higlighted and works if I click on it yet if I search for a string
in the URL text it is not found.

Is this normal?

Thanks,
Dave
 
M

Michael

It looks like it may find a search term if it is the first part of the word
such as searching for computers will find the link computersandrepair but
if you try and seaarch for repair it won't find it. A work around would be
to edit the link and in the text to display box type out the words with
spaces computers and repair, then it will find all the words.
 
E

Erik Sojka (MVP)

In addition to what Michael reported (which I think is a probable bug) you
might want to see if the index is current (if you are running Windows
Desktop Search).
 
D

Dave

Michael,

You are exactly right.

I thought it was anywhere in URL but it find text internal to a URL where
the text is the same as the URL as long as the text begins a token so I can
find "xxx" in the url www.xxxabc.com but could not find the text abc.

THis is also a problem in ANY hyperlink not just a URL.

How are bugs best reported for OneNote?

Thanks,
Dave
 
D

Dave

Erik,

Are you saying Desktop Search has anything to do with OneNote search?

I am searching within OneNote not externally into OneNote folders which I'm
guessing is what you are suggesting. Had not tried that actually and after
doing so I find that search into the OneNote files has the same problem. Can
find beginnings of tokens but not text after the first character of a token.

Also a bug in my opinion.

The desktop search just shows the .one file the text was found in and
clicking it opens to that page but does not highlite the text of an already
running OneNote.

Thanks,
Dave
 
R

Rainald Taesler

Dave shared these words of wisdom:
Are you saying Desktop Search has anything to do with OneNote search?
Click to expand...

YES!
OneNote's search engine is built on top of WDS 3.0 / Windows Search in
Vista. It uses the WDS Index. By this OneNote is extremely powerful by
this.
I am searching within OneNote not externally into OneNote folders
which I'm guessing is what you are suggesting.
Click to expand...

No, this is not about an external search (although searching in WDS
will find everything in ON). It's on the *internal search in ON.
The desktop search just shows the .one file the
text was found in and clicking it opens to that page but
does not highlite the text of an already running OneNote.
Click to expand...

It's the same as with any other type of documents found by WDS (be it a
PDF, a WinWord.doc or an Outlook mail).

Different with the *internal* search in ON. There the matches are
highlighted.

Rainald
 
Y

YouBetcha

This isn't a bug. It is documented in the help file that this is how
searching works in OneNote. Search only searches for words that START with
the string you enter. From the help file:

"Use only the first few letters of a word to expand your search results If
you type the first few letters of a word, OneNote finds words that contain
that portion of the word. For example, if you type Tim and you have notes
that include the word time, OneNote finds notes that contain both Tim and
time. To avoid this, use quotation marks to search for an exact word or
phrase."

The plus side here is that it does a contextual search for WORDS. So if you
search for "apply" it also finds instances of "applies" "applied" but knows
not to find the word "apples."

But it only searches for WORDS, not text. It would be nice if you could do
a "dumb" search, or a search with wildcards.
 
D

Dave

Yes would be nice to at least optionally search for imbedded text not always
starting on token boundaries. That is the way most text search works. Would
not be much slower depending upon how they do it but probably related to the
desktop search feature indexing words and not doing any sort of kwic index.

As always, 'tis not a bug, 'tis a "feature" ;-)

Thanks for finding the doc reference.

- Dave
 

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