# Cannot search inside a topic with a colon included

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-search-inside-a-topic-with-a-colon-included/228782>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [June 1, 2022, 7:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-search-inside-a-topic-with-a-colon-included/228782 "2022-06-01T19:11:55Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 5, 2022, 7:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-search-inside-a-topic-with-a-colon-included/228782/5 "2022-06-05T07:44:05Z")

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I think I see what you mean. When you’re in the topic and you cut and paste the title into the search it no longer offers the ‘in this topic’ option, and if you type it manually it offers it only until it gets to the colon (which then triggers the in:pinned/in:messages/etc shortcuts).

However it worked fine when I clicked ‘in this topic’ first and then pasted or typed the title in.

> [@Slowhand](#):
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> Is this correct behavior? Will I always have to do a preliminary search and get the “in this topic” prompt before I search for the whole title?

I’m not sure I’m following this bit? You would need to navigate to the right topic first to be able to add the ‘in this topic’ filter to the search, but my step-by-step would be:

- Navigate to the topic I want to search
- Click Search icon
- Click ‘in this topic’
- Paste or type my query in
- Search

Is there something I’m missing?

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