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

In this chapter, we will cover:

  • Performing a basic search
  • Performing an advanced search
  • Finding experts using a people search
  • Saving a search as an alert and being notified when the results change
  • Using search analytics to see what people are searching for

Introduction

The ability to quickly locate documents, presentations, and critical business information is a key selling point for SharePoint. Using search isn't difficult, but few Power Users know how to get the most out of it. This is a short but important chapter. The recipes it contains walk you through essential search techniques to help make you the "SharePoint search guru" of your team.

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