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# The Default Document

A new search document is configured for the most common searches.
The descriptions and instructions in this chapter assume that you have not yet made any adjustments to the default setup.
In particular, you should not yet be using the "preferred template" feature.

# The default criteria

## Display name

This criterion allows for searching files by name. The available operators are: "begins with", "contains", "ends with" and "is".
The display name includes the file's extension. You may thus search for PDF files by setting this criteria to "ends with .pdf".
If you were to search for files that do not contain a certain string, you would need to add the "display name" criteria to a "NONE group".

## Text content

This criterion allows for searching files by text content. As such it applies only to files that contain text: word processing documents, presentations, ... .
The available operators apply as follows to a search string of "tree house" :
- "contains fuzzy": This searches for individual string elements anywhere in the text. The search string would match "houseboat appletree"
- "contains prefixes": This searches for word prefixes. The example would match "tree house", "TreeHouse" and also "treetop house".
- "contains words": This searches for words in the text content. The search string match "tree house", "TreeHouse", but not "treetop house".
- "contains phrase": This searches for the exact string. It will match only the exact "tree house" phrase .

## Any Text

This criterion matches any text attribute of your files. E.g. tags or comments. This also includes "text content".

## Date modified

Searches for files modified "before", "on" or "after" a given date. Using the "within last" operator it may also be used to search for files modified a period of time ending now. The period of time is specified in "hours", "days", "weeks", "months" or "years".

## Content Kind

This criteria allows for restricting the matches to a certain type of files.
You may use this criteria in a "NONE group" in order to exclude certain file types from the search. When searching by "Date modified" you may want to exclude folder. Indeed folders show up as modified whenever some of their content is modified.

## See also

Templates
Preferences