Thread: How to search for "&" in authors column?
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Old 02-12-2014, 11:31 AM   #23
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Originally Posted by theducks View Post
While ( ) are not specifically mentioned
Preferences: Searching: (at the bottom):
I think those settings have to do with Grouped Searches. But, without setting up any Group Searches I did following

I set Similar Authors to authors, Match Any

Did an Alt+A on a Karl Marx book, I got books by Karl Marx, but no books by Karl Marx (ed)

Did an Alt+A on a Karl Marx (ed) book, I got books by Karl Marx (ed) but no books by Karl Marx

I get exactly the same results if I set Similar Authors to authors, Match All

Of course I could manually search for authors:"Karl Marx" and that will give me Karl Marx and Karl Marx (ed) books. But that's 20 error prone keystrokes (including the Ctrl+Alt+F to get to search box), whereas Alt+A is only 1 keystroke.

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