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Here's how you can refine your search. Confluence will ignore common words like "the" unless you place your query within quotes.
Exact phrase search
To search for content that contains the exact phrase "chalk and cheese"
Or Search
To search for content that contains one of the terms, "chalk" OR "cheese"
And SearchTo search for content that contains both the terms "chalk" AND "cheese"
Not searchTo search for content that contains "chalk" but NOT "cheese"
Excluded Term searchSimilar to the NOT search, to search for content that contains "chalk" and "butter" but NOT "cheese"
Grouping SearchTo search for content that MUST contain "chalk" but CAN contain either "cheese" or "butter" use the search:
(cheese OR butter) AND chalk
Title SearchTo search for content with "chalk" in its title, where title is the field keyword.
Wild card searchesSingle character
To search for "butter" or "batter" you can use the search:
To search for "chicken" or "chickpea" you can use the search:
Wildcards can be used anywhere within a word, except at the very beginning.
For example:
is an invalid serch term.
Mutliple characters
To search for "chick" or "chickpea":
You can also combine search characters to get the exact word. For example the search term below will return "chic" yet not "chickpea":
Proximity searches
This search ensure that the two words specified must be within a certain number of words of each other to be included.
will return "Octagon blog post".
is an invalid search term.
範囲検索
Searches for names that fall alphabetically within the specifed range.
Note: You can't use the AND keyword inside this statement.
あいまい検索
This search looks for words spelled similarly.
To search for octagon, if unsure about spelling:
will correctly return "octagon"
組み合わせ検索
さまざまな検索語を一緒に組み合わせることもできます。
o?tag* AND past~ AND ("blog" AND "post")
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