Why isn't the document search within the document window staying active with my query?

Question

Before the recent changes, I was able to get a list of documents in a collection and go through one by one with the search set. As I clicked on each document, it would highlight the rows that matched my search allowing me to quickly go through a list of documents. Now I have to open the search window and re-enter my search criteria on each document of my list. I want it to stay defaulted to my search so I don't have to re-enter.

Answer 1

Hello Kyle !

Thank you for posting on Microsoft Learn Q&A.

What you’re seeing is the new editor in the data and index explorer so each time you click a different document, the viewer instantiates a new editor so the find state doesn’t carry over and that’s why your search term no longer sticks from item to item even though it used to with the previous viewer.

You can use the edit filter or run a query so you only list documents that contain your term or use search history in the find box with Ctrl+F in the document then Alt+↑/Alt+↓ (or arrow keys depending on OS) to navigate through previous find terms. It’s faster than retyping, though still per document.