Like other search engines, the GroupWise search engine creates an index of whole words that are contained in the items being searched. When you search with the Search tool, GroupWise compares your search criteria and attempts to match them with the words in the search index. Because the Search tool searches for whole words, Search does not locate partial words or punctuation.
The Find tool, on the other hand, recognizes consecutive characters, even if they are not whole words, as long as the characters exist in exactly the same order you enter them in the Find search box.
For example, if you are looking for an e-mail with “Project status meeting next Tuesday” as the subject, you can search for any or all of the words in the subject in either the search tool or the Find tool.
The following are among the successful search criteria to find that e-mail in each search tool:
|
Tool |
Example |
Finds |
|---|---|---|
|
Search (by subject) |
meeting tuesday |
All items with either “meeting” or “tuesday” in the subject. |
|
Find |
meeting tuesday |
All items with the phrase “meeting tuesday” together in exactly that order in the subject. |
|
Find |
meeting *day |
All items with “meeting” followed immediately by a day of the week in the subject. |
More information to help you make your searches successful can be found throughout this section. For details about options, operators, and wildcards that can be used to compose a search query, see Section 7.3, Searching with Criteria.