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You're reading from Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Power User Cookbook Over 70 advanced recipes for expert End Users to unlock and apply the value of SharePoint

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2011

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781849682886

Length 344 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

SharePoint Framework

Concepts

Application Development

Author (1):

Adrian Colquhoun

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Power User Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Getting Started—SharePoint Essentials FREE CHAPTER

2. Working Together—Using SharePoint to Collaborate

3. SharePoint as the Data Hub—Storing and Integrating Data

4. SharePoint Document Management Deep Dive

5. Getting the Message Out—Using SharePoint to Communicate

6. Where's My Stuff?—Finding Things with SharePoint

7. Gaining Insights— Using SharePoint for Business Intelligence

8. Automating Business Processes—Recipes for Electronic Forms and Workflows

Joining the Dots—Creating Composite Applications

Index

Performing an advanced search

While a keyword search is powerful, SharePoint server offers you even more advanced search options that help focus in on the results that you really need. This recipe shows you how to use them.

Getting ready

This recipe works for:

SharePoint 2010 Standard Edition
SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Edition
Office 365 (SharePoint Online)

You will need an Enterprise search centre to perform an advanced search. Your SharePoint administrator will need to have configured this in your environment.

How to do it...

Navigate to your Search Centre. Click on the Advanced link.
Use the options displayed to focus your search and limit the amount of results that are to be returned.
Add one or more property restrictions to further narrow your result set.
Click on the Search button to see your results.

How it works...

Advanced search is designed to make it easy to apply property filters, combinations of keywords, phrases, and other logic to narrow down your search. SharePoint takes the information...