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Search in SharePoint

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Search in SharePoint

- [Instructor] There are actually two places that we can search on this page. The first, find a file, is within a document library. This is a limited search, and it's actually a filter-in-place search. If I'm looking, for example, for documents that include Detroit, I can either press enter, or I can click the search button, and what I see is documents that have Detroit in them, in the name or in the contents. In fact, if I were to open this document, you would see that Detroit is a piece of data in one cell in this particular spreadsheet. To get rid of this Find a file, I click to clear the search. This filter-in-place search that's used in libraries is different than the search that we have for the site as a whole, and for all the sites in the collection. That's this search box right here. By default, I can search this site, but there are other search verticals, other types of information I might wish to search for. So I could search conversations, I could search everything, I could…

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