Almost every office employee comes into contact with Microsoft Office programs every day. In the following FAQs you will find answers to frequently asked questions about efficient searches in Word, Excel & Co. Also find out how the company's internal search engine searchit the Microsoft Office suite or Microsoft 365 and what advantages it offers compared to searching in SharePoint.
Search Word, Excel, Teams and other MS Office programs
Find key terms in Microsoft Office files - not just in SharePoint, but across all your company's data sources
Microsoft Office or Microsoft 365: Which is better for collaboration?
Can I browse Office applications without opening them?
When using the Microsoft Office suite, files cannot be searched for content without opening them.
Microsoft 365 has implemented the “Microsoft Search” search function in every app. By default, recently used commands and files that can be executed in the current app are displayed here. To access older content, there is usually the “Show more results” option. The Microsoft Search function of a service is usually unable to perform a content search in unopened files or to display files of a different file type than the current app. Exceptions are SharePoint and Microsoft365, which allow searches for the file names of all files stored in the cloud.
How can I search MS Teams and Teams Chat?
To search Microsoft Teams and Teams Chat, you can access the search bar at the top of the application or web view. When entering the search term, shows Teams relevant conversations, channels, files, contacts and more. Additionally, you can use search in the Teams application to find specific chat histories. Search is cloud-based and enables quick access to relevant information in Teams.
How can I search multiple Excel files efficiently?
It is not possible to search the contents of multiple .xlsx files at the same time using the search function in Excel. To search multiple Excel files, you must open each file and access the search function separately. An alternative is to create and install macros yourself, for example in the VBA editor, with which Excel files in a specific directory can be searched for specifically defined search criteria.
In order to be able to search in several Excel files without lengthy preparations, we recommend using enterprise search software. This allows you to search multiple files of a specific format at the same time with just a few clicks - even across different locations.
Enterprise Search takes you further
More comprehensive than searching in SharePoint: Search any MS Office program and Microsoft 365 app with searchitHow does full-text search work in searchit?
By entering a search term into the search interfaceit simultaneously search all indexed files in the connected data sources. Thanks to the extensive connectors, you can access local network drives and servers as well as SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, Outlook as well as other mail servers and cloud platforms simultaneously. As an enterprise search software, searchit all Microsoft Office files and their contents. Users benefit from full-text search that takes file contents of any file type and even previous versions into account. Accessing files in a virtually unlimited storage size is intuitive and can be done in a matter of seconds.
How can I view the version history of Word, Excel, etc. in searchit search?
As part of the regular indexing of all files in the connected sources, Enterprise Search recognizes searchitwhich files have been changed or newly created. Files created in the Microsoft Office suite can therefore be accessed via searchit be tracked for changes. Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other apps in Microsoft 365 contain integrated version tracking, which is also clearly visible in searchit is accessible.
Is searchit more effective for Microsoft Office applications or Microsoft 365?
An in-house search engine offers advantages for both use cases: Companies like to use the cloud-based Microsoft 365 because MS Teams, OneDrive and SharePoint provide many platforms for sharing files and easy online collaboration. Unfortunately, the reality is often that relevant files and team documents are distributed across all of these platforms plus the company's internal servers. With the use of searchit Users can search in all of these interfaces using a central input mask - efficient collaboration is no longer dependent on meticulous data management.
In the case of the locally installed Microsoft Office suite, searchit represents a web-based link: Employees, with the appropriate access rights, can easily see on which server a file they are looking for can be found. Even if collaborative document editing is not permitted, enterprise search can significantly improve collaboration in hybrid teams.
How does the full-text search work? searchit?
By entering a search term into the search interfaceit simultaneously search all indexed files in the connected data sources. Thanks to the extensive connectors, you can access local network drives and servers, as well as SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, Outlook as well as other mail servers and cloud platforms simultaneously. As an enterprise search software, searchit all Microsoft Office files and their contents. Users benefit from full-text search that takes file contents of any file type and even previous versions into account. Accessing files in a virtually unlimited storage size is intuitive and can be done in a matter of seconds.
How can I view the version history of Word, Excel, etc. in searchit search?
As part of the regular indexing of all files in the connected sources, Enterprise Search recognizes searchitwhich files have been changed or newly created. Files created in the Microsoft Office suite can therefore be accessed via searchit be tracked for changes. Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other apps in Microsoft 365 contain integrated version tracking, which is also clearly visible in searchit is accessible.
Is searchit more effective for Microsoft Office applications or Microsoft 365?
An in-house search engine offers advantages for both use cases: Companies like to use the cloud-based Microsoft 365 because MS Teams, OneDrive and SharePoint provide many platforms for sharing files and easy online collaboration. Unfortunately, the reality is often that relevant files and team documents are distributed across all of these platforms plus the company's internal servers. With the use of searchit Users can search in all of these interfaces using a central input mask - efficient collaboration is no longer dependent on meticulous data management.
In the case of the locally installed Microsoft Office suite, searchit represents a web-based link: Employees, with the appropriate access rights, can easily see on which server a file they are looking for can be found. Even if collaborative document editing is not permitted, enterprise search can significantly improve collaboration in hybrid teams.
With Enterprise Search
search almost everything
Our enterprise search software allows you to search almost all sources thanks to many connectors. searchit crawls your scans and images of texts fully automatically and carries out automatic text recognition. The integration of these additional search sources makes the search even more efficient.
Search image texts with text recognition plugin
By using what is available OCR plugins Texts in images and pictorial PDF files also become searchable. The plugin recognizes all text in the files and saves the recognized text so that it can be marked and copied. For example, scans can also be searched.
Numerous content-based filter options
Numerous content-based filter options mean search hits can be limited with just one click. Among other things, highly intuitive graphical search filters - for example for author and storage location - as well as time dimension filters are available. Depending on the type of search, the existing filters are adjusted.
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