topic Can the forum search function search for a phrase? in Get your taxes done using TurboTax

Can the forum search function search for a phrase?

Solar Eclipse — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:34:32 GMT

Is it possible to search for a specific phrase? (It seems the default is to return hits on any words within a phrase)

Also, is there any way to order the search results? (For example newest first)

Thanks,

Re: Can the forum search function search for a phrase?

JohnB5677 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:37:41 GMT

Currently, the TurboTax Community forum search function can not do advanced, exact-phrase searching.

The search feature does not have the capability of sorting in any particular order.

Re: Can the forum search function search for a phrase?

VolvoGirl — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:21:28 GMT

I've found there are several ways to do a search. And I find this year is much better at finding what I want. If you want to sort or filter I use this link

https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/forums/searchpage/tab/message?advanced=false&super_user=true&filter=location&location=category:en-us&allow_punctuation=false

It gives me this screen......

Re: Can the forum search function search for a phrase?

Solar Eclipse — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:41:13 GMT

@VolvoGirl thanks for this!! I will experiment with the search options. But how did you locate that search link?? I don't see any way to get to it from the TT forum...

Re: Can the forum search function search for a phrase?

VolvoGirl — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:46:41 GMT

I don't know. I've had it bookmarked for a long time. Actually I was using it on my iPad and couldn't find it on my Windows Desktop. But I finally got tired of the old regular search so I copied the link from my iPad.

Now another thing....after you get the search results, if you want to see a post but don't want to lose that search, do a Right Click on the post to see and open it in another tab. Then you can go back to the search results. If you do a regular left click on one then when you go back it takes you to the old search layout.

Re: Can the forum search function search for a phrase?

Solar Eclipse — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:59:05 GMT

I cannot thank you enough for this, it will save me hours of sifting through hoards of unrelated search hits! 👍