Box: Search for Files, Folders and Content

Find items in Box with the search bar, filters, spelling suggestions and exact-phrase search.

Use the search bar at the top of Box to find files, folders and content.

Search

1. Click the search bar in the center of the header and start typing. Suggested results appear below the search bar as you type.
2. If the item you need is in the suggestions, click it to go straight to it.
3. To see every result, press Enter (Return on a Mac) or click See all results at the bottom of the suggestions.

The suggestions may be in a different order from the full results page, and depending on Cornell's Box settings the results themselves may differ.

Narrow your results with filters

To open the filter menu, click the Search Options icon on the right side of the search bar:

• Content Filters tab: filter by file type, date modified and file owner.
• Metadata tab: filter using custom metadata fields.

You can also filter from the full results page. Use the drop-down menus at the top of the page to filter by file type, file size, date modified, file owner or custom metadata.

Search tips

• Spelling suggestions: if you misspell a word, Box suggests a "Did you mean" alternative. Click it to search again with the corrected spelling. This works only when the Box page language is set to English.
• Exact phrases: put the words in double quotes, for example "quarterly budget". Box matches the words in order but ignores punctuation between them, so a search for "Blue-Box" also finds "Blue Box" and "blue.box".

For more detail, see Box's article Search for Files, Folders, and Content.

[authored via Jane by aca34 on 2026-10-01 19:31 UTC]