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title: Quick Search
description: Find Expense Reports through the Quick Search in ExpensePoint.
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# Quick Search

The **Quick Search **provides you a few filtering options for all your expense reports. Depending on the submission status, the date of the expense report and permissions you may select different options for the **Quick Searc**h. 

The **Quick Search** provides information on your: 

- Current Work 
- Recent Work 
- All My Work 

***Search* **

The Search functionality allows you to search the list of Expense Reports based on: 

- Author or user 
- Keyword from the expense report 
- Date Range 
- Submission status and approval 

![](https://support.expensepoint.com/hs-fs/hubfs/undefined-Dec-23-2023-06-46-17-0321-PM.png?width=634&height=425&name=undefined-Dec-23-2023-06-46-17-0321-PM.png)

  

To enable this functionality click on the **Search** option, from the **Quick Search** navigation menu from the left side of the screen. You also need to click on any of the other filter options to apply this **Search**:

- My Current Work

- My Recent Work

- All My Work

If you no longer need the** Search**, you can always click on it again to disable.

The additional search section will show up above the expense reports section. 

  ![](https://support.expensepoint.com/hs-fs/hubfs/undefined-Dec-23-2023-06-46-56-6523-PM.png?width=671&height=79&name=undefined-Dec-23-2023-06-46-56-6523-PM.png)

1. To search by author or user, you can either enter a keyword to look up the user, or click on the icon from the right side of the search bar ![](https://support.expensepoint.com/hs-fs/hubfs/undefined-Dec-23-2023-06-48-30-7685-PM.png?width=19&height=23&name=undefined-Dec-23-2023-06-48-30-7685-PM.png):

![](https://support.expensepoint.com/hs-fs/hubfs/undefined-Dec-23-2023-06-47-02-7273-PM.png?width=329&height=91&name=undefined-Dec-23-2023-06-47-02-7273-PM.png)

Select the user from the list to search the** Expense Reports** for this user (with applicable permissions) 

1. To filter expense reports based on the date range, make your selection under the **Date Rang**e field in the search area.

![](https://support.expensepoint.com/hs-fs/hubfs/undefined-Dec-23-2023-06-47-08-6782-PM.png?width=149&height=57&name=undefined-Dec-23-2023-06-47-08-6782-PM.png)

The available options are: 

- Today 

- Yesterday 

- This Week 

- Last Week 

- This Month 

- Last Month 

- This Quarter 

- Last Quarter 

- This Year 

- Last Year 

- Custom 

Once you apply the filter, all the expense reports that meet the filter criteria will be presented under the **Expense Report** section within your workspace. 

1. To search expense reports based on the submission status and approval, you have a few options:

- Unsubmitted 
- Submitted 
- Accounting Approved 

  

**Unsubmitted** - expense reports that you have created but not yet submitted. 

**Submitted **- expense reports that you have create and submitted for approval (next level of approval and/or multiple approvers) 

**Accounting Approved** - expense reports that were accepted and approved by the accounting department, therefore final approval. 

***Note:**** The following menu options will only be available/visible to you if you click on any of the Expenses from the ****Expenses ****section in your ****Expense Manager**** workspace.*  