# 🔎 Glide: Search Box Tips and Tricks

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**Created:** [March 8, 2021, 5:23pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glide-search-box-tips-and-tricks/23959 "2021-03-08T17:23:37Z")\
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Hello @POWH_RPS  
None of your questions can fit into the Experimentale column, but you can do so with:

1. to do a search on several columns, you must before doing a template column group together the data to be searched

2. For the search to be specific to the user, you must do a “search” column with the option “user-specific”

I am preparing a final version for today (I think).

VERSION 2 Here

> [@Search with criteria](https://community.glideapps.com/t/search-with-criteria/30731/3):
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> Hello, Spurred on by @Jeff_Hager , I made a new version. stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye There is only one criteria search which can be a list of words (full or partial) or a word or phrase in “” for an exact search. I also added a few more options. See the detail below: VERSION 2 \* Parameters \* \* String: string to search \* \* Separator: use of a specific character to separate the elements of an array. \* Returns the elements found separated from the same separator. \* …

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