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title: "Search - Toolbars - MetaEditor Help"
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[MetaEditor Help](https://www.metatrader5.com/en/metaeditor/help) → [Toolbars](https://www.metatrader5.com/en/metaeditor/help/toolbar) → Search

# Search

This toolbar allows you to search for information in a program text, user files, as well as different MQL5.community sections.

![Search](https://www.metatrader5.com/i/help/metaeditor/en/toolbar_search.png)

To execute search, enter a necessary word or phrase and click ![Search](https://www.metatrader5.com/i/help/metaeditor/en/search_button.png) or press Enter. As you type, the system immediately offers the most popular query options. [Search results](https://www.metatrader5.com/en/metaeditor/help/workspace/toolbox#search) are displayed in a separate tab of the Toolbox window with a convenient division into categories: Articles, Market, Code Base, Signals, Forum, Documentation and Platform.

To configure your search, click ![Search options](https://www.metatrader5.com/i/help/metaeditor/en/search_settings_button.png):

- Find in document – when enabled, a search is performed within a currently opened file. Found elements are found in the text;
- Find in files – when enabled, a search is performed on all files located in a folder specified in the [Find In Files](https://www.metatrader5.com/en/metaeditor/help/development/source_code_find#folder) window. Search results are displayed in the [Search](https://www.metatrader5.com/en/metaeditor/help/workspace/toolbox#search) tab of the Toolbox window;
- Find in MQL5.community – when enabled, a search is performed within MQL5.community website. MetaEditor features the smart and high-performance search throughout [MQL5.community](https://www.mql5.com/) – community of traders and MQL4/MQL5 developers. The site contains all kinds of useful information: [documentation](https://www.mql5.com/en/docs), [forum](https://www.mql5.com/en/forum), [blogs](https://www.mql5.com/en/blogs) of traders and analysts, [articles](https://www.mql5.com/en/articles) related to programming and platform use. The community provides access to the huge [source code database](https://www.metatrader5.com/en/metaeditor/help/workspace/toolbox#codebase) and [the application store](https://www.mql5.com/en/market) for the platform.
- Find in GitHub, MSDN, Stack Overflow – in addition to MQL5.community, the search includes other popular platforms, such as GitHub, MSDN and Stack Overflow. Search results from external resources appear in the [toolbox window](https://www.metatrader5.com/en/metaeditor/help/workspace/toolbox#search). Furthermore, you can immediately download source files from GitHub. Files are downloaded into a separate subdirectory of the Projects folder, named in accordance with the GitHub project name.
- Match Whole Word Only – this option allows to search by a particular word form, only the word or phrase that exactly match the search query will be found;
- Match Case – enable/disable case sensitivity when executing the search query;
- Search Down – if disabled, the search is performed upwards from the cursor position in the file. When enabled, the search direction is reversed.

> You can search only in one section at a time simultaneously. The section is selected in the settings.

## In this section

- [Standard](https://www.metatrader5.com/en/metaeditor/help/toolbar/toolbar_standard)
- Search
- [Setup](https://www.metatrader5.com/en/metaeditor/help/toolbar/toolbar_customize)

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