Microsoft Document Explorer is driving me CRAZY
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Does anybody know to work with this junk of help system Microsoft made? I search for "apples oranges cucumbers" and I get 500 results of pages that match ANY of the terms, not ALL the terms as one would normally surmise. No wonder all Microsoft's search tools get a beating from Google. This is less functionality that friggin Notepad! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. ^ |_______ and hey, I'm not angry at you ::- D. Maybe it's my fault and I don't know how to use it. Does ANYBODY know???
-= E C H Y S T T A S =- The Greater Mind Balance Blending C++ with COM ^ Have a break on my website! Spread the word? Please?
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Does anybody know to work with this junk of help system Microsoft made? I search for "apples oranges cucumbers" and I get 500 results of pages that match ANY of the terms, not ALL the terms as one would normally surmise. No wonder all Microsoft's search tools get a beating from Google. This is less functionality that friggin Notepad! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. ^ |_______ and hey, I'm not angry at you ::- D. Maybe it's my fault and I don't know how to use it. Does ANYBODY know???
-= E C H Y S T T A S =- The Greater Mind Balance Blending C++ with COM ^ Have a break on my website! Spread the word? Please?
Hi, I've had this WTF moment too and have often wondered why a document explorer search was a lot less precise than I intended it to be. Q) Is the search term 'apples oranges pears' is equivalent to the term 'apples AND oranges AND pears'? A) It depends! Explicit use of the AND operator will give hits that contain all three keywords. The problem when AND is merely implied is that a setting in Visual Studio (Tools..Options..Help..General..Include partial matches in local search results) allows partial matches, in effect allowing 'apples OR oranges OR pears'. Unchecking the box in my VS C# Express 2005 has restored sanity to the world of boolean logic. Alan.
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Hi, I've had this WTF moment too and have often wondered why a document explorer search was a lot less precise than I intended it to be. Q) Is the search term 'apples oranges pears' is equivalent to the term 'apples AND oranges AND pears'? A) It depends! Explicit use of the AND operator will give hits that contain all three keywords. The problem when AND is merely implied is that a setting in Visual Studio (Tools..Options..Help..General..Include partial matches in local search results) allows partial matches, in effect allowing 'apples OR oranges OR pears'. Unchecking the box in my VS C# Express 2005 has restored sanity to the world of boolean logic. Alan.
*laugh* nice reply Alan. Thanks! It worked! ::- D. Pfew. So it was me who was stupid and didn't investigate well enough the options. Thanks again for showing the way and getting me rid of one of my greatest frustrations EVER.
-= E C H Y S T T A S =- The Greater Mind Balance Blending C++ with COM ^ Have a break on my website! Spread the word? Please?