Answers.Body: <p>For standard phone number fields, that is taken care of:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><p>In Advanced Search, the help text shows "Punctuation and spaces are
  ignored." Formatting entered in the search is ignored and the search is done on just the digits.</p></li>
  <li><p>In Quick Search, enter just the digits of the phone number.</p></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>But your title mentions custom fields... Does that mean you have an alphanumeric custom field to store a phone number?  Instead of that, can you use the standard phone numbers with a different 'location'?  You can customise the list of locations at <code>Administer &gt; Customize Data and Screens &gt; Dropdown Options &gt; Location Types</code></p>
  
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Answers.Text: I want to change the appearance of civi crm reports when we export it to PDF.some contents are getting overlapped.
  http://imgur.com/a/QRXhp
  
  Thanks for your support.
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Body: <p>Suppose I have phone number having format as (xxx)xxx-xxxx.Is their anything in search so that I can simply search with this format which excludes brackets and characters like xxxxxxxxxx.</p>
  
Tags: <search><search-results><quicksearch>
Title: want to change search algorithm in custom fields
ThreadText: # want to change search algorithm in custom fields
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2017-06-18)
  
  Suppose I have phone number having format as (xxx)xxx-xxxx.Is their anything in search so that I can simply search with this format which excludes brackets and characters like xxxxxxxxxx.
  
  **Tags:** search, search-results, quicksearch
  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2017-06-19. Score: 0 | Accepted answer
  
  For standard phone number fields, that is taken care of:
  
  * In Advanced Search, the help text shows "Punctuation and spaces are
    ignored." Formatting entered in the search is ignored and the search is done on just the digits.
  * In Quick Search, enter just the digits of the phone number.
  
  But your title mentions custom fields... Does that mean you have an alphanumeric custom field to store a phone number? Instead of that, can you use the standard phone numbers with a different 'location'? You can customise the list of locations at `Administer > Customize Data and Screens > Dropdown Options > Location Types`
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: I want to change the appearance of civi crm reports when we export it to PDF.some contents are getting overlapped. http://imgur.com/a/QRXhp  Thanks for your support.  
  
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