How do I perform an exact match search?

[Joel Newton]

I am searching our instance of Confluence for the word "Esper" so I search for "Esper" (in quotes).

Many of the results I get are for pages with "esp" but not "Esper". This seems wrong. Can anything be done to exclude these results? Thanks.

[Kian Stack Mumo Systems · Accepted solution]

@Joel Newton, 

Atlassian's documentation on searches indicates that using quotation marks will return exact matches.

If this isn't working properly, perhaps raising a ticket with Atlassian would be appropriate.

[Joel Newton]

Thanks. I'll do that.

[Lucy Minato]

@Joel Newton good luck with your exact match searching, it's been a problem in Confluence for a while for a few of us. Here's some reading for you:

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-discussions/Search-like-a-pro-with-the-new-advanced-search-experience/td-p/1183423
• https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-69222

:-)