The following are operators that can be used in Google Docs. The full document can be found
here.
| Operator | Definition | Example |
| “ ” Quotes | To find documents that contain that exact phrase. | “match this phrase exactly” |
| OR | To find documents with at least one of the words. | tacos OR nachos |
| - Hyphen | Documents that don’t have a particular word. So if you want docs that mention salsa, but not dancing use... | salsa -dancing |
| from: | Documents shared from someone | from:bob@gmail.com |
| to: | Documents shared to someone | to:bob@gmail.com |
| is:starred | Items that you have marked with a star. | is:starred |
| is:hidden or is:archived | Items that you have hidden from the main Documents List by deselecting the Show in Home option. | is:hidden |
| type: | Search by the type of document. This covers: document, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, image, video, image_or_video, pdf, and textdoc. | type:spreadsheet |
| before:YYYY-MM-DD after:YYYY-MM-DD | Find items that were edited before or after a certain day. | before:2010-12-01 |
| owner: | Search according to who owns the item. | owner:Frank |
| title: | Search by the item’s title | title:”Conference 2010” |
