4 Advanced Search Operators to Help Find Elusive Google Drive Files

A lot of the value of Google Drive comes from how quickly we can identify and access exactly what we’re looking for. While creating a folder structure can serve as a great foundation to Drive, we’ve found that many people fail to maintain these folders, making search a much more efficient option.

This video covers a view of the best search operators in Google Drive and how you can put them to good use. For example, if you frequently add stars to files in Google Drive, it almost ruins the point of having them! But pairing a keyword search with a specific search operator can help turn up those important files in no time.

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Tips For Searching Google Docs

Once you get into Google Drive you will in all likelihood end up with many, many documents and folders in your drive. Luckily, Google provides plenty of tools in Drive to help you find what you need.

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There is a familiar-looking search bar at the top of the Drive homepage, from which you can perform a keyword search. Remember that when you perform a search in Google Drive you are searching the whole document, not just the filename. It will even use OCR technology to try to interpret the contents of things like images and PDF files.

To the right of the search bar is a down-pointing triangle. Click on it to bring up many more options for filtering your search by file type, visibility or ownership:

How to Use Google Drive’s New Add-ons in Google Docs and Spreadsheets

When a user logs into their Google Drive account and creates a new Document or Spreadsheet (see image below) the new Add-ons menu will show up next to the Help menu towards the right side. Add-ons already installed will also show up under that menu too.



Google’s rolling the new feature out incrementally, so not everyone will see it. Also seeing the new menu item in one app doesn’t mean it will show up in another other app right away. For example, my account shows it in Google Documents, but not in Google Spreadsheets yet.

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