Is there an easy way to search a space for specific "paragraphs" on pages

Michel Feddema
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November 7, 2024

In stead of creating subpages and add them as link in the page, we now have put the content of these subpages to the mainpage.

One of the effects is that before you could easily search on the subpage, now we can't search or don't know how :-) for the specific paragraph. It opens the page but not the specific content.

Does anyone know how to solve this?

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Humashankar VJ
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November 9, 2024

Hi @Michel Feddema 

Even if Confluence lacks a direct search feature for specific paragraphs, you can utilize its advanced search syntax to achieve similar results. To refine your search, try these techniques:

  • Start with exact phrase searches by enclosing phrases in double quotes, such as "project timeline", to retrieve pages containing that precise phrase.
  • Engage advanced search operators like AND, OR, and NOT to narrow down results. For instance, searching for "sprint AND report" will yield pages containing both terms.

Utilize wildcards by replacing single characters with "?" or multiple characters with "*". This allows searches like "cha?k" to return results for "chalk" and "chark".

To search within a specific page, use the "in" operator followed by the page title and your search term, such as "in:Project Plan sprint" to find "sprint" within the "Project Plan" page

To learn more:

Confluence search syntax | Confluence Cloud | Atlassian Support

Hope this helps - Happy to help further!!
Thank you very much and have a great one!
Warm regards

 

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