# \[DONE\] Turning off fuzzy search? -\> Use quotes to find "exact thing" **URL:** \ **Category:** Ideas & Features\ **Tags:** automations, search\ **Created:** [June 19, 2024, 7:18am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/done-turning-off-fuzzy-search-use-quotes-to-find-exact-thing/6312 "2024-06-19T07:18:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Daniel\_Chiniquy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/daniel_chiniquy/32/6955_2.png) [@Daniel\_Chiniquy](https://community.fibery.io/u/Daniel_Chiniquy)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2024, 7:18am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/done-turning-off-fuzzy-search-use-quotes-to-find-exact-thing/6312/1 "2024-06-19T07:18:09Z")
We have devices with exact serial numbers in Fibery, and we often search for them using these serial numbers. Unfortunately, at some point (i swear this didn’t use to happen) the search became “fuzzy” and started showing a bunch of results with similar serial numbers that were not actually the device I was looking for. So a search for FCW2546YKGA would return FCW2546YKGC, FCW2546YKG7, FCW2546YKG2 and FCW2546YKGK, and not necessarily in the correct order, leading to easy mistakes. Is it possible to enforce strict search results in some way? ---
**Author:** ![YvetteLans](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/yvettelans/32/6101_2.png) [@YvetteLans](https://community.fibery.io/u/YvetteLans)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2024, 2:37pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/done-turning-off-fuzzy-search-use-quotes-to-find-exact-thing/6312/2 "2024-06-19T14:37:07Z")
I can understand that it’s not welcome in your situation. But for our use cases I was pleasantly surprised with the new search function! Normally I needed to know the exact name of a task (and often I don’t know that). While currently I get all tasks that are somehow related and contain the word I was searching for. > [@Daniel\_Chiniquy](#): > > Is it possible to enforce strict search results in some way? Adding this will solve all use cases I think 😄 ---
**Author:** ![Oshyan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/oshyan/32/11431_2.png) [@Oshyan](https://community.fibery.io/u/Oshyan)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2024, 9:13pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/done-turning-off-fuzzy-search-use-quotes-to-find-exact-thing/6312/3 "2024-06-20T21:13:32Z")
I wonder if the very common “put the exact search term in quotes” approach could solve it elegantly and in a familiar way. Obviously a toggle for “exact search term” or whatever could also work, but I like the in-line search notation approach in general… Would be great if we could do more with that too, e.g. `"FCW254" -xyz DB:blahblah` to search for FCW254 (exact), excluding results that have xyz, in specific database “blahblah”. ---
**Author:** ![Daniel\_Chiniquy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/daniel_chiniquy/32/6955_2.png) [@Daniel\_Chiniquy](https://community.fibery.io/u/Daniel_Chiniquy)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2024, 9:58am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/done-turning-off-fuzzy-search-use-quotes-to-find-exact-thing/6312/4 "2024-08-06T09:58:14Z")
Anyone from Fibery who can assist us here? This issue is causing some headaches for our users. ---
**Author:** ![YvetteLans](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/yvettelans/32/6101_2.png) [@YvetteLans](https://community.fibery.io/u/YvetteLans)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2024, 2:18pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/done-turning-off-fuzzy-search-use-quotes-to-find-exact-thing/6312/5 "2024-08-06T14:18:11Z")
> [@Daniel\_Chiniquy](#): > > This issue is causing some headaches for our users. I can understand that it can cause headaches if you want a strict search. > [@YvetteLans](#): > > But for our use cases I was pleasantly surprised with the new search function! > > Normally I needed to know the exact name of a task (and often I don’t know that). > > While currently I get all tasks that are somehow related and contain the word I was searching for. I really hope though that we can have both; since I’m still really happy on a daily basis that I can find more stuff that I’m looking for 😄 ---
**Author:** ![mdubakov](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/mdubakov/32/10_2.png) [@mdubakov](https://community.fibery.io/u/mdubakov)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2024, 12:55pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/done-turning-off-fuzzy-search-use-quotes-to-find-exact-thing/6312/6 "2024-10-14T12:55:43Z")
We will solve this problem soon via quotes pattern: “exact match” ---
**Author:** ![mdubakov](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/mdubakov/32/10_2.png) [@mdubakov](https://community.fibery.io/u/mdubakov)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2024, 2:14pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/done-turning-off-fuzzy-search-use-quotes-to-find-exact-thing/6312/7 "2024-11-07T14:14:40Z")
Exact phrase search released today > [@November 7, 2024 / face\_exhaling Whiteboard Text Editor v.2, Search exact match using quotes, and many improvements](https://community.fibery.io/t/november-7-2024-whiteboard-text-editor-v-2-search-exact-match-using-quotes/7752): > > Whiteboard: Text Editor v.2 (bold, italic, links) We’ve enhanced the text editing experience on Whiteboard (a lot). New text editor is based on ProseMirror (as are all Fibery documents and rich text fields). Whiteboard text editor supports essential text formatting options, including bold, italic, strikethrough, and link hyperlink insertion. These formatting options are available in text blocks, shapes, and stickers. It took us almost two months to implement, and we hope it will worth … ---
**Author:** ![Chr1sG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/chr1sg/32/3941_2.png) [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2024, 2:18pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/done-turning-off-fuzzy-search-use-quotes-to-find-exact-thing/6312/8 "2024-11-07T14:18:36Z")