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Use the main search field to search a SharePoint list for entries in “Person or Group” type column [migrated]

Setting: SharePoint online project staff list contains person or group column as well as bunch of metadata columns about that person.

Problem: Main search field at the top of the page with “Search this list” written in it does’t return anything from the list … ever. I need it to return results only from the person column. Applying filter to column for a person that is 100% on that list returns empty list half of the time.

I really miss the desktop experience 😔 Please help.