Can we search by topic instead of by post?

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**Lionheart713**

I want to search for topics, not responses. Is that a feature I don't know about?

For example, I'm trying to search the 40K army lists for Tau formations, but I get these results, many of which have nothing to do with what I'm looking for, or are different responses in the same threads.

Can we limit search results to the OP, or the subject of the thread? It would help a lot.

**SlaveToDorkness**

You can refine the search to only be in the title of a thread.

**Lionheart713**

How do I do that?

**Krellnus**

Above the search button there is a set of two radio buttons, the second one will change it from listing posts, to listing threads.

**Wyrmalla**

Does that not still just show all posts, but cuts out the actual post content and displays just the thread titles? So instead of showing a list of a few threads it duplicates the listings for each post in that thread? Seems a bit obtuse to me, but the same goes for not being able to filter threads for just images easily either.