OneNote should have a NOT operator in its search capability

[alainr]

I see the search operators AND, OR, NEAR... But where's the NOT operator??

For example: When I search for "COM" I get a 150 results. Mainly because I
have a lot of links that end with .com in my notes. OneNote should allow me
to make a query as:

Search box: ["COM" NOT ".com"]
....and return the same results from the problem case mentionned above,
exculding all entries that found ".com".

Inclusion of the NOT operator would allow the return of more useful queries
by providing the capability to filter result more efficiently.

 

[Andrew Watt [MVP - InfoPath]]

I see the search operators AND, OR, NEAR... But where's the NOT operator??

For example: When I search for "COM" I get a 150 results. Mainly because I
have a lot of links that end with .com in my notes. OneNote should allow me
to make a query as:

Search box: ["COM" NOT ".com"]
...and return the same results from the problem case mentionned above,
exculding all entries that found ".com".

Inclusion of the NOT operator would allow the return of more useful queries
by providing the capability to filter result more efficiently.

Alain,

Improvements in search are commonly requested. Hopefully at least some
of them will appear in the next version of OneNote.

BTW if you want to reduce the number of matches by narrowing the scope
of the search have a look at the dropdown immediately to the right of
the search box.

Andrew Watt
MVP - InfoPath