Support • Re: Search Syntax Help Suggestions

Thank you for your feedback fhbutler,

Moved from Search Syntax Help.

Search syntax help is available in Everything from the Help menu.
I recommend trying the Advanced Search from the Search menu to help learn the Everything search syntax.



Everything does a partial search by default.
Matching whole words can be enabled under the Search menu.

Wildcards (? and *) enable globbing which matches the whole filename by default.
Matching the whole filename when using wildcards can be disabled under Tools -> Options -> Search.

This will be clarified in the Everything 1.5 -> Help -> Search syntax.

I would suggest that an explanation of how this works appear in the top item of this pinned help topic, and added to the top of the "Help > Search Syntax" menu item.

It's already at the top as an announcement.

Statistics: Posted by void — Mon Jun 01, 2026 11:42 pm

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