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Hard to search the web with long search string after desktop deskbar search. Jeremy Gollehon 06-03-2005
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Posted by Jeremy Gollehon on June 3, 2005, 3:19 pm
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I have no idea how to get this to someone who might care about or be able to
implement/fix this, so this is as good a place as any.
Anyway...

Let's say I have the deskbar set to search the desktop by default.
I type "I am a really really long annoying search string" and hit enter.
Oops! I wanted to search the web, not my desktop.
With the beta, I could click on the blank deskbar, click the web button,
then click my last search term in the Deskbar history.

With the release version, when I click the web button it automatically
searches the web with an empty search string. Not very useful this way.
I'd prefer it to work as the beta did, but if not, one should at least be
able to hold down shift and click on a deskbar history item and send that
string to the web search. This would save having to retype "I am a really
really long annoying search string" again.

Thanks for listening if you're out there. :-)

-Jeremy






Posted by Jeremy Gollehon on June 13, 2005, 10:40 am
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David,
Excellent. Thanks for the info.
I still think it should work by clicking on the Web button, but at least
this is a workaround.

Thanks again.
-Jeremy

> Jeremy,
>
> You can hit F2 to toggle to web scope, and then select the "I am a really
> really long annoying search string" from the history in word wheel.
>
> -David [MSFT]
>
> "Jeremy Gollehon" wrote:
>
>> I have no idea how to get this to someone who might care about or be able
>> to
>> implement/fix this, so this is as good a place as any.
>> Anyway...
>>
>> Let's say I have the deskbar set to search the desktop by default.
>> I type "I am a really really long annoying search string" and hit enter.
>> Oops! I wanted to search the web, not my desktop.
>> With the beta, I could click on the blank deskbar, click the web button,
>> then click my last search term in the Deskbar history.
>>
>> With the release version, when I click the web button it automatically
>> searches the web with an empty search string. Not very useful this way.
>> I'd prefer it to work as the beta did, but if not, one should at least be
>> able to hold down shift and click on a deskbar history item and send that
>> string to the web search. This would save having to retype "I am a
>> really
>> really long annoying search string" again.
>>
>> Thanks for listening if you're out there. :-)
>>
>> -Jeremy
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>




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