Help With Searching In OneNote

[Tom]

I have a pdf document that I send to onenote. The document has several
hundred bills such as AB 500 or SB 345. When I do a search I can only look
for the first two letters such as AB and SB or I can search for the numbers
such as 500 or 345. This can bring up numerous results. Is there an advance
feature like adobe where I am able to search for the whole bill "AB 500"? I
have tried this everytime and it doesn't come back with any results. Your
help is greatly appreciated.

 

[YouBetcha]

Are you saying that when you put the search inside quotation marks, you get
no returns from the search?

 

[Tom]

No I just used the quotes as an example of what I am trying to search for....
such as "AB 500". With or without the quotes my search results don't come
back with what I want which is AB 500. I get no returns for AB 500 as for
AB500. With AB I get hundreds of results because there are hundreds of bills
starting with AB. With a search of 500 I get several results because there
are many bills such as SB 500, AB 500, and so forth. Your help with narrowing
the search feature to something as simple as SB 500 is greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

 

[xTenn]

No I just used the quotes as an example of what I am trying to search
for....
such as "AB 500". With or without the quotes my search results don't come
back with what I want which is AB 500. I get no returns for AB 500 as for
AB500. With AB I get hundreds of results because there are hundreds of
bills
starting with AB. With a search of 500 I get several results because there
are many bills such as SB 500, AB 500, and so forth. Your help with
narrowing
the search feature to something as simple as SB 500 is greatly
appreciated.
Thanks!

Okay, when you use <Quote>AB<space><Quote> in the search field (literally
"AB 500") you should get back results of all "AB 500". When you use AB 500
you should get back all AB hits and all 500 hits.

I use the quotes to search for exact text a lot, and it works as expected.
The notebooks typically used at the time tend to be pretty hefty, so I don't
think that is the case. Let me confirm, the notebooks you are searching are
not password protected and locked at the time, by any chance?