The fastest way to find what you are looking for in Confluence is to do a site search. Confluence will search all content, including attachments.

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The *Quick Search* feature makes it possible for you to search Confluence wherever you happen to be in the site. The *Quick Search* box is located at the top right hand corner of every screen. Simply type in your query and click the search button. !space attachments directory^searchbox.png|align=center!
By default, Confluence will search all content (except mail) in all global spaces, and display the results in a new screen. Here are the results of searching for 'Confluence' :
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For each result, the *title* of the content item, the *space* to which it belongs, its *author* and the *date* of its last modification are presented. The first two lines from the item are also displayed to give you an indication of its content.

(i) Only search results from spaces you have permission to view will be displayed.

See [Confluence Search Syntax] for more ways to use the search box.

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If you are using [Confluence Hosted|http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/hosted.jsp], you cannot search user profiles or the People Directory. Read more about the [feature limitations in Confluence Hosted|CSH:Limited Features in Confluence Hosted].
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The *Advanced Search* allows you to refine your search.

When you do a *Quick Search*, the *Advanced Search* facility is displayed along with the results.
* *Location* \- Search within a particular space, or within Favourites, Personal Spaces, Global Spaces or All Spaces.
* *Group by* \- Decide how you want the results are grouped: by 'content type' or by 'space'.
* *Type* \- Decide which of the 'content types' you want to search.
* *Date* \- Search by 'date' of modification.

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Additionally, [Confluence Search Fields] describes special parameters you can use in the search field to search on various metadata.

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Confluence will search the following type of attachments:
* Word
* Text
* Powerpoint
* Excel
* PDF
* HTML

To search other types of attachments, you will need to use [Attachment content extractor plugins|doc:Attachment content extractor plugins]

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h5. RELATED TOPICS

[Confluence Search Syntax]
[Confluence Search Fields]
[Text Tokenization and Filtering]
[Viewing labelled pages]
[Searching the People Directory]

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