minus (-) operator in search isn't working

[Dana Hollander]

Hi, 

I am using confluence cloud and have tried to search in confluence using the (-) minus operator, but received the same results as if I didn't use it at all (all the results for the search term). 

When I used the NOT operator the number of results reduced dramatically (from 6715 to 232). 

Is this a bug? according to this page using the (-) sign should work. 

Thank you.

[Andy Gladstone · Accepted solution]

@Dana Hollander Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Your ink is for the Server/Data Center search syntax. The (-) operator is not used in Cloud. You can find that documentation here.

Good luck!

[Dana Hollander]

Thank you