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Hi there..
I'd like to know how to search for exact terms and eliminate partial results. For example, I'm searching for "apple". How do I tell Everything to search only for "apple" so it won't show me fuzzy or partial match results like "applet", "dapple", etc. but still show results like "apple.jpg", "apple.txt", "apple.db" as long as it's just "apple"?
Thanks!

How about apple.*

Apple.* has a small drawback of ignoring a file Apple with no extensions. Whole word modifier can be invoked thru Ctrl+B. Then the search will yield only the said word and no suggestions. Or type ww:apple.

vsub,
that's actually a good suggestion. But in addition to what nagan said, it won't also show folders.

nagan,
I tested your suggestions with "ww:taskbar" and Everything showed me this: How do I filter out the result so it will only show me items that's strictly containing the word "taskbar" only?

How about
taskbar.* | len:7 taskbar
The first displays all files with extension
The second display all files without extension and also all folders with that name

vsub,
thanks! that pretty much does it. Except for one file "Taskbar.W.png"
But I think I could let that slip. Although I do have a number of files whose names have dots that precede the file extension.

BTW, how did you come up with "len:7"? I haven't seen that in FAQs.

In the everything window Help=>Search Syntax

Wow! That Search Syntax is a long list of helpful stuffs. I never looked in to that before. Many thanks!

Hello,

I am also trying to find a file by its exact name.

The files I am searching for have no extensions.

The search syntax help says

" " Search for an exact phrase.

However I have tried this and it still matches all matches containing the search term rather than the exact match.

See screenshot

Prefix the term with exact:

For example:

exact:SAM