partial word search?

[james]

It seems one note cannot find partial word unless it is the first part of a
word. But I often need to find the last part of a word.

E.g. I have a list of stuff I bought in the past 10 years. Sometimes I only
remember the last part of a product model number and onenote could not find
it because it is a partial word but not the first part of the word. E.g. I
bought DMC-FX500S but searching for "FX500" would not find this.

Is there an option somewhere to change this behavior?

 

[David Olsen]

What OS? What version of Windows Search?

 

[ekseks]

I've noticed this too. Even using a wildcard * does not work.

The only other option I know of is to make a PDF of the notebook and search
from there. Much more robust search capability that way.

 

[spc]

I agree. I have recently started using Onenote 2007 and I am disappointed
about how limited the search capability is. No "advanced" search, no use of
* wildcard, no partial words. I wanted to find notes with "dns" - but a
search for dns will not find my note with the word "flushdns".

A good search capability is essential for any note saving program.
Unfortunately onenote falls down in this aspect.

 

[Ian]

I was hoping in the early days that it would be indexed like Outlook 2007
is. In Outlook 2007 any item, email, note, task, appointment comes up in the
search very well and then you can just open that item.

OneNote notebooks seem to be indexed as a whole, it would be immensely more
useful for finding random notes if the search returned page level results
from Vista Search or Windows Desktop Search 4 in XP.

At time it is just easier to put some things in Outlook due to this specific
issue. I would like to remove the notes from Outlook and have them all in
OneNote but I don't see the advantage yet.

Anyone with ideas on this?

I am still trying to move Info Select notes over to OneNote but it looks
like it will be easier to import into Outlook. For random information Info
Select beats Outlook and OneNote hands down but I want to stick with
Microsoft particularly with the future of OneNote 2010.