# Your first search

The fastest way to understand this is to run a search Confluence could not: every page over two thousand words that nobody has updated this year.

That takes two filters and about a minute.

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## Step by step

![The Capable Search window with filter chips for Spaces, Contributors, Updated At, Labels and Macros above a results table; the Labels chip is open, listing labels such as approval-adder, campaign, col](https://help.gocapable.com/images/389ea675-8981-4676-be24-7fd328f8a18b.webp)

Each chip in the bar opens its own list of values, so picking a label narrows the table without writing a query.

![The Confluence left sidebar showing For you, Recent, Starred, Spaces and Apps, with Content Manager highlighted under Your apps and Explore more apps below it.](https://help.gocapable.com/images/d0e63bed-49d6-4d5f-97c1-f77eea5c4ade.webp)

Capable is opened from the Apps menu in the Confluence sidebar, where it may be listed as Content Manager.

| **Step** | **What you do**                                                            |
| -------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 1        | Open Capable, then Search.                                                 |
| 2        | Filter by space, so you are looking at something you recognise.            |
| 3        | Add a word count filter. That column comes from the Word count capability. |
| 4        | Add a last-updated filter.                                                 |
| 5        | Sort by word count, longest first.                                         |
| 6        | Save the search, and give it a name somebody else would understand.        |

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**If a filter returns nothing at all, check indexing before assuming the answer is zero.** Pages indexing has not reached carry no values, so they do not match rather than coming back empty.

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## What to try next

![A Confluence page open in the editor with a Capable Search Results macro below a warning panel, rendering a table of ten pages with title, created by, collaborators, last updated and words, and a head](https://help.gocapable.com/images/bf8d3ee2-b100-4d6b-8f75-f41f935b8107.webp)

A search can be dropped onto a page with the search results macro, where it renders as a table that stays current.

* Put the saved search on a page with the search table macro, so it stays current without anybody maintaining it.
* Filter by link domain to find every page pointing at a service you are retiring.
* Filter by diagram language to find every page with a draw.io diagram on it.

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## A few things worth knowing

* Saved searches are objects, not bookmarks. Renaming or re-scoping one changes it everywhere it is used.
* The Copy CQL action gives you the exact query, which is the easiest way to reuse it in Confluence search.
* Permissions always apply. You cannot find a page you could not already open.

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## Related

[Saved searchesMaking it reusable.](https://help.gocapable.com/search/saved-searches.html)

[Search macrosPutting it on a page.](https://help.gocapable.com/search/search-macros.html)

[IndexingWhy a filter can look empty.](https://help.gocapable.com/search/indexing.html)

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_Two filters. One minute._