Wherever you open the search panel, it always covers your own library, so you never have to remember which folder a document is in.
Documents
The Documents group matches your documents by name. Pick one and it opens, the quickest way back into a document without scrolling the Explorer. This group is in scope from anywhere, the editor, the Explorer, or the new-document flow.
Folders
The Personal Space group matches your folders by name. Picking a folder takes you to it in the Explorer, so search doubles as a way to jump around your folder tree without expanding it by hand.
Shared with you
If anyone has shared a document with you, a Shared with You group matches those too. Picking one opens it on its share link, with whatever access the owner granted. This keeps shared work findable alongside your own, without it cluttering your folders.
Search is owner-scoped: a guest finds the documents their own browser owns, and signing in brings your account's documents (and anything shared with you) into scope.
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