The Booleans and other suggestions work fine in Windows 10 also, so ignore that the article was originally written with Windows Vista in mind. If you want to learn some other tips on locating files in Windows, this Microsoft article is very good: Then under the Origin section of window that opens you'll see the Author name.Right click on any word or excel document The search experience in Windows 10 is the first one to get the rounded corners, and as it turns out, the restyled interface is already available in the operating system by default but disabled so.The Author name is commonly the name you Registered as Owner of your Windows installation, or your User logon name. As a result if you know the folder your document is saved in (for example Documents) then if you open File Explorer, then open the Documents folder, you can enter the above into the folders search box (located top right of folder window). Note: The default Search box and Cortana can be a little slower for searches as they need to index files. Type the following in the Search or Cortana box:.Please let me know if it's possible to search for exact phrase with special symbols. Windows 7 seems to have options related to this, like 'use natural language' and 'find partial matches'. who authored the document is Kat and the phrase being looked for is 'John walked his dog.' When I search, for example, for 'name.txt' in file content it seems that it finds all files with 'name' and 'txt' in any order.
In the Search Box, or Cortana box you can enter the following details to locate a file or files with an exact Phrase.įor this example I will assume Author Name (i.e.
