Search confusion

[Bill]

I know there is a solution, but need some fine-tuning here regarding the great search program the program has.
I keyed in my CD28 name, Morning (and) Light to see my posts,
and up came many with either "morning," " light," or some posts with no M or L when I just put in Morning Light with no interceder.
Can one use the "and," "or," "*" to get the "Morning Light"
as one term? Now... am I confusing or confused, or both?
Thanks, Bill

[bilofsky]

Bill, it looks to me like it's working.

I put in "morning light" and get 134 messages. The first one was the one you posted. There are also a number of other messages from you in the first few listed.

When you click "Search" it defaults to "search for all words". So all you have to type is "morning light". That gives the 134 messages that have both "morning" and "light".

If you select "search for any words or use query as entered" and search for "morning and light", that does the same thing - it searches for all messages that contain "morning" and "light", because it's interpreting the "and" to mean search for both words.

If you select "search for any words or use query as entered" and search for "morning light", then it looks for messages with either "morning" or "light", and comes up with over 2000 messages.

With the current search - it is faster than the old one, and you can use * as a wildcard - but there is no way to search for an exact phrase like "morning light". There should be, and maybe some day there will be, but right now there is not.

Hope that makes things clearer.

- Walt

[Bill]

Thanks Walt. It would be nice to select my boat name and just
come up with 30 or 40 posts...but, tis better than the 2400 I got.
Thanks again!