Aloha EMRhelp.org,

I do it more or less daily, actually. Usually I'm looking for a particular
document or spreadsheet and I'll usually search by a short phrase that I
know is in the document.

-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr - MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
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> On Feb 7, 1:30 am, Ben M. Schorr - MVP <b...@bogusaddress.mvp> wrote:
>
>> Aloha EMRhelp.org,
>>
>> Well, o.k. I guess I rarely have that problem but maybe I'm just
>> using more precise search terms? If I get too many hits it's not
>> because of searches that blur my personal and professional lives but
>> rather because I get hits out of IM archives, e-mail, documents, and
>> other things and limiting the TYPE of file, rather than the domain of
>> that file, presents a result set that is useful and managable.
>>
>> I suppose I can see the value in being able to define subsets -- it
>> order
>> to segregate them, however, you'd almost always have to do it by
>> folder structure
>> (unless we created some sort of metadata to discern it). But with
>> those
>> subsets defined it would follow that you'd be able to limit your
>> search with
>> them.
>> Sounds like a good feature suggestion.
>>
>> -Ben-
>> Ben M. Schorr - MVP
>> Roland Schorr & Towerhttp://www.rolandschorr.com
>> Microsoft OneNote FAQ:http://www.factplace.com/onenotefaq.htm
>>> On Feb 4, 3:12 pm, Ben M. Schorr - MVP <b...@bogusaddress.mvp>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Aloha EMRhelp.org,
>>>>
>>>> I'd have to ask. Why would you want different indexes? That sort
>>>> of
>>>> defeats
>>>> the purpose of having one universal search doesn't it?
>>>> -Ben-
>>> OMG NO!
>>> The number 1 problem with these ULTRA MEGA "entire computer" search
>>> things is you get too many hits. If you get too many hits it is
>>> useless.
>>> My life spans many entirely different domains.
>>> In Microsoft's mindset of computing you'd think they'd at least
>>> separate : Work Files, Personal Files, are you sure you want these
>>> to be "mushed up together in the same search ?". I sure don't.
>>>
>>> Of course if you had certain subsets of indexes you could always
>>> have a button to search "all indexes". So your need to search
>>> everything is still there.- Hide quoted text -
>>>
>> - Show quoted text -
>>
> Ben,
> Please volunteer the last time you searched your ENTIRE computer (and
> all the contents that WDS indexes) for something. Why did you do it ?