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description: Enable document content search, CJKT search optimization, sidebar search auto-complete, and more. Configure the lookup settings and the number of search results per object and lookup settings.
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# Configure Search Settings in Salesforce Classic

Enable document content search, CJKT search optimization, sidebar search auto-complete, and more. Configure the lookup settings and the number of search results per object and lookup settings.

### Required Editions

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small edition"><colgroup><col></colgroup><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: Salesforce Classic</td></tr><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: <strong>All</strong> Editions except <strong>Database.com</strong></td></tr></tbody></table>

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          <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d29278e63 ">To modify search settings:</td>

          <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d29278e63 ">Customize Application</td>

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To change your org’s search settings, enter Search Settings in the **Quick Find** box, then select **Search Settings**.

## Search Settings

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            <td data-label="Field" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d29278e111 ">
              <strong class="uicontrol">Enable “Limit to Items I Own” Search
                Checkbox</strong>
            </td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d29278e114 ">
              <p>
                <span id="customize_search_settings__LimitToItemsIOwnCheckbox"><a name="customize_search_settings__LimitToItemsIOwnCheckbox"><!-- --></a>If this setting is enabled, the
                  <strong class="uicontrol">Limit to Items I Own</strong> option is available to users. The
                  option allows users to include only records for which they are the record owner
                  when entering search queries in the sidebar.</span>
              </p>
              <p style="margin-bottom:0;">The <strong class="uicontrol">Limit to Items
                  I Own</strong> option that appears in advanced search is always available to
                users, regardless of this setting.</p>
            </td>

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            <td data-label="Field" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d29278e111 ">
              <strong class="uicontrol">Enable Document Content Search</strong>
            </td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d29278e114 ">If this setting is enabled, users can perform a full-text document search. <span id="customize_search_settings__SearchContents"><a name="customize_search_settings__SearchContents"><!-- --></a>When a new document is uploaded or an old one is replaced, its
                contents are available as search terms to retrieve the document. This setting
                applies only to searches for the document object.</span></td>

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            <td data-label="Field" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d29278e111 ">
              <strong class="uicontrol">Enable Search Optimization if your Content is Mostly in Japanese,
                Chinese, or Korean</strong>
            </td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d29278e114 ">
              <p>If this setting is enabled, search is optimized for the Chinese, Japanese, and
                Korean languages in the sidebar search. It affects sidebar search and the account
                search for <strong class="uicontrol">Find Duplicates</strong> on a lead record in sidebar search
                and global search. </p>
              <p style="margin-bottom:0;">Enable this option only if users are searching mostly in
                Chinese, Japanese, or Korean, and if the text in searchable fields is mostly in
                those languages. Don’t enable this option if you expect content and searches to be
                mostly in other languages.</p>
            </td>

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            <td data-label="Field" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d29278e111 ">
              <strong class="uicontrol">Use Recently Viewed User Records for Blank and Auto-Complete
                Lookups</strong>
            </td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d29278e114 ">
              <p>If this setting is enabled, the list of records that are returned from a user
                auto-complete lookup and from a blank user lookup is taken from the user’s recently
                viewed user records. This setting applies only to lookups in the <em>user</em>
                object.</p>
              <p style="margin-bottom:0;">If this setting isn’t enabled, the dialog box shows a list of recently
                accessed user records from across the org. It also stops populating records when
                the 200 record limit is reached, due to search crowding.</p>
            </td>

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            <td data-label="Field" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d29278e111 ">
              <strong class="uicontrol">Enable English-Only Spell Correction for Knowledge
                Search</strong>
            </td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d29278e114 ">
              <p>If this setting is enabled, search returns results for corrected spellings of
                English search terms:</p>
              <ul>
                <li>On the Articles and Article Management tabs</li>
                <li>In the articles tool in Case Feed</li>
                <li>In the Salesforce Knowledge sidebar in the Salesforce console</li>
              </ul>
            </td>

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            <td data-label="Field" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d29278e111 ">
              <strong class="uicontrol">Enable Drop-Down List for Sidebar Search</strong>
            </td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d29278e114 ">
              <span id="customize_search_settings__ObjectDropDown"><a name="customize_search_settings__ObjectDropDown"><!-- --></a>If this setting is enabled, a drop-down appears for
                users to choose whether to search within tags, within a specific object, or across
                all objects.</span>
            </td>

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            <td data-label="Field" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d29278e111 ">
              <strong class="uicontrol">Enable Sidebar Search Auto-Complete</strong>
            </td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d29278e114 ">
              <span id="customize_search_settings__SidebarAutoDef"><a name="customize_search_settings__SidebarAutoDef"><!-- --></a>If this setting is enabled, when users start typing
                search terms, sidebar search displays a matching list of recently viewed
                records.</span>
            </td>

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            <td data-label="Field" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d29278e111 ">
              <strong class="uicontrol">Enable Single-Search-Result Shortcut for Sidebar and Advanced
                Search</strong>
            </td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d29278e114 ">
              <p>
                <span id="customize_search_settings__SsrDef"><a name="customize_search_settings__SsrDef"><!-- --></a>If this setting is enabled, users skip the search results page
                  and go directly to the record’s detail page when their search returns only a
                  single item.</span>
              </p>
              <p style="margin-bottom:0;">This setting doesn’t apply to tags, case comments (in advanced
                search), and global search. If the search result is a single tag, case comment, or
                item in global search, the search results page still appears.</p>
            </td>

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            <td data-label="Field" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d29278e111 ">
              <strong class="uicontrol">Number of Search Results Displayed Per Object</strong>
            </td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d29278e114 ">
              <span id="customize_search_settings__NumSearchResultsPerObject"><a name="customize_search_settings__NumSearchResultsPerObject"><!-- --></a>The Number of Search Results Displayed Per
                Object area allows you to configure the number of items that are returned for each
                object in the Search Results page.</span>
            </td>

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            <td data-label="Field" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d29278e111 ">
              <strong class="uicontrol">Lookup Settings</strong>
            </td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d29278e114 ">The Lookup Settings area allows you to enable enhanced lookups and lookup
              auto-completion for enhanced lookup-enabled objects and any custom object
              lookups.</td>

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#### See Also

- [Make Search Faster](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=ai.search_index_considerations.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "In Salesforce Classic, disabling search for custom and external objects, and scheduling bulk uploads during off-peak hours helps speed up search.")
- [Customize Search Layouts](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=ai.customizing_search_layouts.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Search layouts let you determine what users see when Einstein Search returns results. For each unique user profile, you can create search layouts for standard and custom objects, ensuring the layout shows users what’s most relevant to them. Only objects with customizable layouts support profile-specific layouts. The search layout that you configure applies to global and lookup searches.")
- [Search Layouts Limitations](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=ai.customize_searchlayout_notes.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Understand the restrictions around search layouts.")