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The fastest way to find what you are looking for in Confluence is to do a site search. Confluence will search all content, including attachments.

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Quick Search

The Quick Search feature makes it possible for you to search Confluence wherever you happen to be in the site. The Quick Search box is located at the top right-hand corner of every screen. Simply type in your query and press the Enter key.

By default, Confluence will search all content (except mail) in all global spaces and display the results in a new screen. Here are the results of searching for 'confluence':

Screenshot : Search results for 'confluence'

You will see a few lines for each item that matched the search criteria, with the following information:

  • An icon representing the content type (space, page, news item, etc). See Confluence Icons.
  • The title of the content item.
  • The space to which it belongs, displayed in brackets after the title.
  • The first two lines of content from within the item.
  • The date when the content item was last modified.
  • The labels attached to the item.

You will see only search results from spaces you have permission to view.

See Confluence Search Syntax for more ways to use the Search box.

Advanced Search

The Advanced Search allows you to refine your search.

When you do a Quick Search, the Advanced Search options are displayed along with the results.

  • Location — Search within a particular space, or within Favourites, Personal Spaces, Global Spaces or All Spaces.
  • Group by — Decide how you want the results are grouped: by content type or by space.
  • Type — Decide which of the content types you want to search.
  • Modified — Search by date of last modification.

Screenshot : Advanced Search

Additionally, Confluence Search Fields describes special parameters you can use in the Search field to search on various metadata.

Searching Attachments

Confluence will search the following type of attachments:

  • Word
  • Text
  • Powerpoint
  • Excel
  • PDF
  • HTML

To search other types of attachments, you will need to use Attachment content extractor plugins.

RELATED TOPICS

Confluence Search Syntax
Confluence Search Fields
Text Tokenization and Filtering
Viewing labelled pages
Searching the People Directory

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